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"""...[a] dazzling display of expertise."" - Interdisciplinary Literary Studies ""Johnson focuses not on Borges's uses of his philosophical references, but on how Borges can be brought into classical debates in philosophy, on time, identity, God, and so forth. His corpus of philosophers is novel in the context of Borges studies-we get Aristotle here more than Plato, Augustine and Aquinas, Maimonides and Averroes, Hegel and Kant, Agamben and Derrida. The effect is salutary: he shows how Borges's thought takes up, and participates in, some old (and some new) philosophical debates."" - Daniel Balderston, Director, Borges Center, University of Pittsburgh, and editor of Variaciones Borges ""Kant's Dog is a groundbreaking work that fills a long-lasting hole in Borges scholarship. Johnson beautifully brings together the discourses of literature and philosophy through Borges's work. He provides original and illuminating interpretations of some of the most important texts and problems in Borges's oeuvre."" - Kate Jenckes, author of Reading Borges after Benjamin: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History"

...[a] dazzling display of expertise. - Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Johnson focuses not on Borges's uses of his philosophical references, but on how Borges can be brought into classical debates in philosophy, on time, identity, God, and so forth. His corpus of philosophers is novel in the context of Borges studies-we get Aristotle here more than Plato, Augustine and Aquinas, Maimonides and Averroes, Hegel and Kant, Agamben and Derrida. The effect is salutary: he shows how Borges's thought takes up, and participates in, some old (and some new) philosophical debates. - Daniel Balderston, Director, Borges Center, University of Pittsburgh, and editor of Variaciones Borges Kant's Dog is a groundbreaking work that fills a long-lasting hole in Borges scholarship. Johnson beautifully brings together the discourses of literature and philosophy through Borges's work. He provides original and illuminating interpretations of some of the most important texts and problems in Borges's oeuvre. - Kate Jenckes, author of Reading Borges after Benjamin: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History

Johnson focuses not on Borges's uses of his philosophical references, but on how Borges can be brought into classical debates in philosophy, on time, identity, God, and so forth. His corpus of philosophers is novel in the context of Borges studies-we get Aristotle here more than Plato, Augustine and Aquinas, Maimonides and Averroes, Hegel and Kant, Agamben and Derrida. The effect is salutary: he shows how Borges's thought takes up, and participates in, some old (and some new) philosophical debates. - Daniel Balderston, Director, Borges Center, University of Pittsburgh, and editor of Variaciones Borges Kant's Dog is a groundbreaking work that fills a long-lasting hole in Borges scholarship. Johnson beautifully brings together the discourses of literature and philosophy through Borges's work. He provides original and illuminating interpretations of some of the most important texts and problems in Borges's oeuvre. - Kate Jenckes, author of Reading Borges after Benjamin: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History

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David E. Johnson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the coeditor of Thinking with Borges and coauthor (with Scott Michaelsen) of Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture.

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