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Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato

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In Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato, Hugo Moreno argues that in Ficciones, Claros del bosque, and El mono gramático, Jorge Luis Borges, María Zambrano, and Octavio Paz practice a literary way of philosophizing—a way of seeking and communicating knowledge of reality that takes up analogical procedures. They deploy analogy as an indispensable and irreplaceable heuristic tool and literary device to convey their insight and perplexities on the nature of existence. Borges’ ironic approach involves reading and writing philosophy as fiction. Zambrano’s poetic reason is a mode of writing and thinking based on an imaginative sort of recollection that is ultimately a visionary’s poetizing technique. Paz’s poetic thinking relies on analogy to correlate and harmonize an array of worldviews, ideas, and discourses.

In the appendix, Moreno shows that Plato's Republic is a forerunner of this way of philosophizing in literature. Moreno suggests that in the Republic, Plato reconciles philosophy and poetry and creates a rational prose poetry that fuses argumentation and narration, dialectical and analogical reasoning, and abstract concepts and poetic images.

353 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 15, 2022

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Hugo Moreno

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Argentin d’origine, Hugo Moreno appartient à la génération des années 1960 et des grandes luttes ouvrières de la résistance péroniste et du mouvement révolutionnaire et autogestionnaire. Il participe au mouvement social et politique de l’époque. Arrêté au Brésil et torturé, il est séquestré puis transféré en Argentine et mis «à disposition du pouvoir exécutif». Libéré, il reprend ses études et son activité militante avant de quitter le pays pour fuir les escadrons de la mort. Il séjourne à Lisbonne et participe à la Révolution des œillets (1975-1977) puis s’installe en France. Il est libraire à la Fnac puis maître de conférences en sciences politiques à l’Université de Paris 8. Il a publié Le Désastre argentin (Syllepse, 2005).

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