ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the sub sequence chapters of this book. The book began with the hypothesis that in author's thematizations of the relationship between representation and reality Borges is a "precursor" of post-analytic philosophers. It is focused on particular inflection that Borges gives to the complex themes that grow out of the problem of the relationship between representation and reality. The author tries to show the ways in which Borges prefigures the crucial move made in American post-analytic philosophy toward anti-realism, as portrayed in Richard Rorty's philosophy. The book shows the ways in which Borges prefigures, particularly in his short-stories, crucial moves made by American post-analytic philosophy. It shows the ways in which Borges foreshadows another decisive shift made in American post-analytic philosophy, the shift toward conceptual relativism. The author outlines the two important notions of the subject in Borges's work: the Humean-Machian-Mauthnerian and the Schopenhauerian conceptions of the self.
