The Infinite Library That Contains the Date of Your Death | Borges for Sleep
Borges's Complete Philosophy
Somewhere in an infinite library, there is a book that contains the date of your death. This is the mind of the blind Argentine librarian who thought in fictions and dreamed in paradoxes. Jorge Luis Borges was not a philosopher who wrote systematic treatises. He was a storyteller who turned philosophical problems into fables so precise and beautiful that physicists, neuroscientists, and literary theorists are still catching up to him. We walk through twenty chapters of his life and work, from the childhood library in Palermo to the quiet grave in Geneva, from Funes the Memorious to The Library of Babel to the Aleph in a Buenos Aires basement. These are stories about memory, infinity, identity, dreams, and the suspicion that the universe itself might be a text we are only partially able to read. The full episode is on YouTube and Spotify. Please listen only in safe, restful contexts.
