Immanence with a (Negative) Difference: Spinoza, Borges, and Barth

Zachary Tavlin

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Pages:: 58–72

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004311930_005

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Abstract: In this essay I read Spinoza’s Ethics, Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” and John Barth’s “The Literature of Exhaustion” in a way that mimics the tripartite apparatus espoused by the author of the last – Spinoza as author, Borges’ story as text, and Barth as reader. In so doing, I will address the implications of an historically immanent reading that takes seriously the ‘death of the author’ as a transcendent guarantee of meaning while also investigating the way subjectivity remains embedded within the structure of the literary text. This essay ultimately articulates a challenge that these two texts, together, raise for a postmodern reading, one that charts a way out of its own state of ‘exhaustion’.

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Literature and the Encounter with Immanence

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 298 and Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 298

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004311930

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 May 2017

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
- Philosophy
  - General
  - Aesthetics & Cultural Theory

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