Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty

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ISBN: 9798855805406

Kate Jenckes (University of Michigan)

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English

State University of New York Press
01 February 2026

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Social & political philosophy

Series: SUNY series, Literature...in Theory

A fresh look at how Borges's most celebrated stories critique various forms of sovereignty, from philosophical ideals of mastery to historical instances of fascism.

Jorge Luis Borges was one of the principal writers of the twentieth century to bring literature to bear on the relationship between the political and the philosophical. Although often regarded as a master of the abstract and universal, his fiction is equally concerned with the singular—with the unique, odd, and contingent. Kate Jenckes revisits Borges's most well-known stories with fresh eyes, revealing their persistent preoccupation with singularity, understood at base as that which exceeds sovereignty. Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty explores Borges’s portrayal of the limits of sovereignty in a range of registers, from stylized depictions of imperialism and fascism to the structure of subjectivity with its dependence on perception, memory, and language. Through the cracks in different ideals of sovereignty emerges a mode of relation that Borges reluctantly calls the aesthetic, which serves to name a non-sovereign approach to the singularities of life and historicity.

By: Kate Jenckes (University of Michigan)
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9798855805406
Series: SUNY series, Literature...in Theory
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 01 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kate Jenckes is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Reading Borges after Benjamin: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History and Witnessing beyond the Human: Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina, both published by SUNY Press.

Reviews for Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty

""Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty shows the necessity of moving between these two poles—the first representing the possibility of ethical relation and the second representing the dominant political idea of the West, the attainment of mastery over oneself, one's community, and one's world. Jenckes is a sensitive reader, newly illuminating the very works that made Borges an important point of reference in the fields of world literature and philosophy and demonstrating their relevance to current debates about politics, identity, and the nature of knowledge."" — Stephen Gingerich, author of This Side of Philosophy: Literature and Thinking in Twentieth-Century Spanish Letters