In a remarkable exercise, Martín Plot reads Borges in the light of some of the fundamental questions of 20th century political theory, without detracting either from Borges' prose or from the finest understanding of contemporary political theory.

Claudia Hilb, University of Buenos Aires, Conicet

Throughout the postwar period, political thinkers in the Anglophone West have considered aesthetic works and ideas as either apolitical or anti-political. Much has been done in recent years to rectify this misapprehension. Few international scholars have contributed more to the radical rethinking of aesthetics and politics than Martín Plot, who in this volume, shows us how we can approach the writings of a master of twentieth century literature as an astute and engaged political thinker, through both the stories he wrote and the forms of writing he developed.

Davide Panagia, professor and chair of political science, UCLA

Every reader of Jorge Luis Borges’ stories and essays will be aware of the variety of philosophical themes and puzzles they contain. Martín Plot’s achievement in Chaos and Cosmos is to show that underlying these fragments is a systematic philosophical position, a form of pragmatism that rejects epistemological, metaphysical, and political absolutes. Plot's argument is based on a well-informed and wonderfully insightful reading of a range of Borges’ texts.

Ross Poole, The New School