M. A. King wrote:
> Some weeks ago, someone asked if anyone knew the title of the Borges story
> that Foucault refers to at the beginning of _The Order of Things_; the
> same question was recently asked over on the Deleuze-Guattari list, and
> was answered thusly: "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins", which is
> collected in _Borges, A Reader_.
>
> Standard disclaimers apply, because I haven't yet tracked it down
> myself, but hopefully this solves the mystery. :)
The essay is available in English, along with bibliographic data, at
http://www.jbi.hioslo.no/2c11/wilkins.htm -- and very good it is too.
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know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." --Oliver Edwards
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> Some weeks ago, someone asked if anyone knew the title of the Borges story
> that Foucault refers to at the beginning of _The Order of Things_; the
> same question was recently asked over on the Deleuze-Guattari list, and
> was answered thusly: "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins", which is
> collected in _Borges, A Reader_.
>
> Standard disclaimers apply, because I haven't yet tracked it down
> myself, but hopefully this solves the mystery. :)
The essay is available in English, along with bibliographic data, at
http://www.jbi.hioslo.no/2c11/wilkins.htm -- and very good it is too.
--
"I have tried too, in my time, to be a philosopher; but, I don't
know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." --Oliver Edwards
T P Uschanov tuschano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx +358 (0)40 584 2720
Visit my home page! http://www.helsinki.fi/~tuschano/