Philosopher

The Library of Babel

Overview

1941 short story by Jorge Luis Borges

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Philosophers who discussed The Library of Babel

• The Name of the Rose
• Short story
• Umberto Eco
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Ideas The Library of Babel discusses

• Cult
• Grapheme
• Philosophy
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Kabbalah
• Robert Burton
• The Anatomy of Melancholy
• Language
• The Name of the Rose
• Mathematician
• Argentina
• Infinity
• Metaphor
• Superstition
• Observable universe
• Recursion
• Short story
• Topology
• Organized religion
• Umberto Eco
• Willard Van Orman Quine
• Blaise Pascal
• Reality
• God

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy and literature.

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