Abstract:

What is the relationship between philosophical understandings of the infinite and their narrative expressions? This article explores the infinite in two aesthetic paradigms: the horror of the infinite in classical Greece, and Romanticism's glorification of the unlimited. It argues that these two approaches paved the way for a third, a "relational infinite" that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. To illustrate this third paradigm, I draw on the works of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges and on other fictions of the fantastic genre that make the boundless and endless a key element of the plot.

中文翻译：

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无限的审美模式：恐怖、崇高和关系

摘要：

对无限的哲学理解与其叙事表达之间的关系是什么？本文探讨了两种美学范式中的无限：古典希腊对无限的恐惧，以及浪漫主义对无限的颂扬。它认为这两种方法为第三种方法铺平了道路，一种出现在二十世纪下半叶的“关系无限”。为了说明这第三种范式，我借鉴了阿根廷作家豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯的作品和其他奇幻小说，这些小说使无边无际成为情节的关键要素。