Abstract
In this essay we propose an investigation of the work of Jorge Luis Borges as a response to the current crisis of imagination, which has been proclaimed as the central problem of “postnormal times” and also singled-out from other perspectives (ecocriticism, education, posthumanism). The main aim is to examine diverse ways of thinking and imagining that are discernible in the work of Borges, “other inquisitor” in search of marvelous heresies. The theoretical framework of the analysis is based on Deleuze’s noological texts on the concept of the “ideal game” (a heterodox anti-metaphysical thought that conceptualizes difference and nonsense) and on pataphysics, which was proclaimed by Deleuze as the only general term that corresponds to all attempts to overcome metaphysics. We propose the thesis that the divergent, paradoxical way of thinking and imagining in Borges, between literature, science and philosophy, is a type of pataphysics, necessary to confront “postnormality”.
Keywords:
Borges; Deleuze; pataphysics; noology; imagination