Kant's Dog: On Borges, Philosophy, and the Time of Translation

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Index 269 accident/accidental/accidentality, 4, 6–12, 18–21, 22, 23, 29–30, 49, 52, 60–62, 68, 70–71, 74–75, 76, 78, 85–88, 90–92, 108, 113, 117, 119, 124–25, 130, 131–33, 135, 138, 140, 171, 179–80, 192, 194, 196, 203, 221, 223, 226n10, 227n11, 228n4, 236n19, 245n39, 249n13 Agamben, Giorgio, 227n17, 248n11, 254n20 Ahmed, Hassanuddin, 253n6 aleph (alef, alif), 163, 172–77, 179–81, 183–84, 190, 198–200, 207, 252n3–4, 253n10 Almeida, Ivan, 225n2–3, 244n33 analogy, 16, 30, 134–41, 171, 216, 228n4, 234n9, 247n4, 248n10, 248n12 Anidjar, Gil, 255n22 Arendt, Hannah, 253n18 Aristotle, 7–10, 17, 23, 28–30, 35–37, 56, 117, 131–39, 141, 171, 226n9, 226n10, 227n11, 228n4, 228n5, 229n10, 244n32, 247n2, 247n3–6, 248n11, 254n20; Categories, 136, 138, 247n6; Metaphysics, 7–8, 29, 117, 135, 137, 138; Nicomachean Ethics, 138; Physics, 28, 29, 131, 228n4, 254n20; Poetics, 8, 134–35, 227n11, 247n3; Rhetoric, 131–35, 247n2–3 attribution, 14, 47–48, 53, 61, 63, 77, 84–86, 92, 110, 113–14, 126, 135, 139–40, 238n28, 243n29; faculty of, 109; operation of, 112; see also imagination, schematism Aubenque, Pierre, 250n23 Augustine, 36–38, 94, 149–52, 156, 159, 209, 230n12, 231n14 authority, 22, 53, 59, 69, 71, 75–81, 85; of the impression, 68; of original, 50, 52 Avelar, Idelber, 217–20 Averröes, 194, 255n21 Balderston, Daniel, 1–2, 13–14, 98, 225n4, 227n14, 233n2, 235n17, 237n28, 247n3 belief, 22, 47, 52–53, 61, 64–74, 82–86, 89; see also faith, imagination, schematism Benjamin, Walter, 46, 77, 80, 82, 179, 236n18 Bennington, Geoffrey, 244n34, 244n37 Benveniste, Emile, 142–44, 249n15– 16 270 Index Bioy Casares, Adolfo, 15, 98, 125, 239n7 Blanchot, Maurice, 79, 237n21 Block de Behar, Lisa, 76, 79–83, 237n21, 237n23, 237n28 Borges, Jorge Luis, passim; works by: “The Aleph,” 172–77, 179, 191, 204, 207; “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins,” 122–25; Autobiografía, 47–48; “Averröes’s Search,” 170, 194, 214; “La cábala,” 204; “On the Classics,” 75; “Death and the Compass,” 203–4; “In Defense of Kabbalah,” 42; “On Dubbing,” 85–87; “The Ethnographer,” 216–23; “Funes the Memorious,” 22, 91–96, 99, 102, 105, 116–26, 173; “The Garden of Forking Paths,” 23, 92, 159–65, 167–69, 191, 250n25; “Guayaquil,” 97–98; “History of the Echoes of a Name,” 184–85, 244n38; “History of Eternity,” 27, 33–41; “The Homeric Versions,” 6, 22, 49, 51, 74–75, 78, 82; “The Immortal,” 177, 208–11; El lenguaje de Buenos Aires, 33, 247n9; “The Library of Babel,” 18–20, 189–90, 219; “Metaphor” (1921), 130–31, 142; “Metaphor” (1952), 130, 134, 141; “The Mirror of Enigmas,” 185–87; “A New Refutation of Time,” 26–27, 31, 72–74, 82, 154; Otras inquisiciones, 33, 98, 185; El otro, el mismo, 25, 28; “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quijote,” 22, 45–47, 56, 78–79, 82–85, 87–89, 92, 155; “The Postulation of Reality,” 95–96; “The Secret Miracle,” 164–65, 167, 190–92; “Sentirse en muerte,” 33–34; “The South,” 119; “Theme of the Traitor and the Hero,” 164–67, 178, 186, 250n25; “The Theologians,” 148–50, 153–58, 165, 173–74; “On Time,” 26–27, 35–36, 42–43, 118; “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” 15, 25–26, 75–76, 79, 125, 135, 177; “The Translators of the 1001 Nights,” 51; “The Writing of the God,” 161, 204–8 borrón, 28, 30, 112, 116 Brogan, Walter, 7–8, 226n10 Cámpora, Magdalena, 226n11 Cascardi, Anthony J., 239n3 Cassirer, Ernst, 91, 238n1 categories, 99, 106, 110, 112, 136 Cervantes, Miguel de, 3, 74, 76–77, 80, 83–84, 237n28 Christina, Queen of Sweden, 86–87 Clark, David L., 238n1 Claro, Andrés, 227n13, 253n7, 253n9 Cordua, Carla, 1–2, 225n4 culture, 75, 97–98, 145, 177, 218, 221–23 Dan, Joseph, 182 Dawood, N. J., 179 death, 32–35, 47, 68, 78, 81, 120, 150, 168; of language, 139–40 de Man, Paul, 2 Derrida, Jacques, 15, 16–17, 30–31, 34, 45–47, 80–82, 135–37, 140, 142, 144, 145–47, 158, 166, 175, 183, 202, 211, 214–16, 227n15, 228n1, 228n4, 228n6, 271 Index 228n8, 230n11, 232n16, 248n10, 249n17, 252n1–2 Descartes, René, 123–24, 180, 234n9, 243n29 Dove, Patrick, 258n7 Dubbing, 85–87; see also translation Egginton, William, 228n1, 230n13, 231n15 erasure, 28, 89, 112, 211...