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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Philosophy, Literature, and the Accidents of Translation

1. Time: For Borges

2. Belief, in Translation

3. Kant's Dog

4. Decisions of Hospitality

5. Idiocy, the Name of God

Afterword: The Secret of Culture

Notes
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Index