Foreword by Jorge Luis Borges 1. Borges: Life and Works 2. The Infinite

• The Function of the Infinite
• The Vastness of Time and Space
• The Infinite Multiplications
• The Infinite Postponements and Cyclical Time

3. Chaos and the Cosmos

• The Chaotic Vision of the Universe
• The Symbols of Chaos and the Cosmos

4. Pantheism and Personality

• History, Philosophy, and Language: Attempts to Order and Possess the Universe
• The Angelic Possession of the Universe
• Pantheism and the Nullification of Personality
• Other Cases of the Disintegration of the Individual

5. Time and Eternity

• Allusions to the Temporal Flow
• Disintegration of Time

6. Idealism and Other Forms of Irreality

• Berkeley's Idealism
• Symbols of Irreality
• Planes of Fiction and Reality
• Unreality Reflected in Vocabulary and Syntax

7. Conclusion

    Appendices

• Explanation of Abbreviations of Borges' Works
• Borges on Borges

    Bibliography