期刊名称：Tonos Digital : Revista Electrónica de Estudios Filológicos
印刷版ISSN：1577-6921
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
期号：14
出版社：Facultad de letras, Universidad de Murcia
摘要：ABSTRACT:In this paper I study the affinities between English tradition –in its philosophical and literary expressions- and the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, who considered himself “an English author writing in Spanish”. In the first part I analize the philosophical and aesthetic sympathy that Borges felt for William James’ pragmatism. In the second part I show how this sympathy goes beyond William James and extends to English tradition. Indeed, what one can consider the main characteristics of English tradition –scepticism, nominalism, antisistematism, freethinking and a particular sense of humour- form a philosophical and literary character very close to the one that underlies in Borges’ writing. In the last part I study how this character does not belong to an alleged national idiosyncrasy, conceived in essencialist terms, but to a determinate historical process that enabled humanist values to perdure while being uprooted by rationalism in the rest of Europe.
关键词：Jorge Luis Borges, William James, Scepticism, Pragmatism, Freethinking, Nominalism, English literature, Philosophy, Humanism, Rationalism, Humour.
