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Signs of the Concept of Chaos in Kant’s Thinking and Its Relationship with Jorge Luis Borges’ Thinking



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Pablo César Martín Meier

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2018.03.006

The concept of chaos is present in man from the origins of mankind. Philosophy is alien to this concept and proceeds to speculate about its reality. Both Kant and Borges were not indifferent to this speculation and in their works, we can find “the effort to explain or to approach” the concept of chaos. Our first aim is to demonstrate in Kant’s The Critique of Judgement, and more precisely in The Analytic of the Sublime, what Kant understands as “chaos.” Our second aim is to establish a relationship between Kant and Borges in some of Borges’ tales. Finally, we aim at establishing whether this “language of chaos” can refer to a sort of communication which exceeds logic language, i.e., a sort of “mute logos.”

chaos, sublime, Kant, Borges, logos