ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses three different conceptions as they appear in Borges's work. In the chapter Borges dedicates to trascendentalism, after mentioning diverse sources for the movement, "Hindu pantheism". Borges's questioning of the self can be traced back to his defense of the avant-garde movement Ultraismo, of which he was a member. Lukacs' account of the formation of modern subjectivity serve is framework for Borges's challenge of the notion of the self. Borges opposes the social-planning Keynesian state by opposing the gradual interference of the State in the acts of the individual. "La loteria de Babilonia" may be read as a "reaction to the state form that has been developing in the West, and consequently in Argentina, during the 1930s", the planning state. It is necessary for the state do no more than protect their rights to life, liberty, and property. Babylonian society is based on a hierarchical structure.
