David Johnson
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The U.S. Army entered World War II unprepared. In addition, lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and public apathy for the army's unprepared state. David E. Johnson believes instead that the principal causes were internal: army culture and bureaucracy, and their combined impact...
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Situates Borges at the limit of philosophy and literature.
Kant's Dog provides fresh insight into Borges's preoccupation with the contradiction of the time that passes and the identity that endures. By developing the implicit logic of the Borgesian archive, which is most often figured as the universal demand for and necessary impossibility of translation, Kant's Dog is able to spell out Borges's responses to the philosophical problems that most concerned...
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En El can de Kant David Johnson establece un diálogo con la enigmática idea de Borges de que la traducción es consustancial a las letras, a partir de una reconsideración de la estructura temporal de la traducción que pone en tela de juicio la relación entre lo necesario y lo accidental, lo universal y lo singular. De ese modo, Johnson conceptualiza la lógica subterránea del archivo borgeano de acuerdo con las principales preocupaciones del...