Unrequited sublimations: Borges reads Spinoza.(Jorge Luis Borges, Baruch Spinoza)

The Romanic Review | March 1, 2007| | Copyright

The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy cites Jorge Luis Borges--along with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Heine, George Eliot, and George Sand, Somerset Maugham, and Bernard Malamud--as creative writers influenced by Baruch Spinoza. The inclusion of Borges in this list honors the Argentine fabulist, but it is somewhat misleading: it would be more accurate to say that Borges had an uneasy relationship with the philosopher.

Borges mentions or discusses Spinoza in essays, poems, and short stories; and he agreed with Bertrand Russell's assessment of Spinoza as "the most lovable ...

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