Episode #6: Io Blair-Freese on The Zahir and An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain by Jorge Luis Borges

Io Blair-Freese – philosopher, international development pioneer, and lover of maps and computers – guides us through “The Zahir” and “An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain” by Jorge Luis Borges. We talk about idealist philosophy, inevitable religions, identity, the power of attention, the limitations of attention, and the limitlessness of language.

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