William Egginton's 2023 book interweaving the thought of Kant, Borges, and Heisenberg — arguing that all three reached the same conclusion from different directions: that reality as we experience it is always a construction mediated by our cognitive and physical limitations, never the thing itself.
Synthesizes three major intellectual traditions (philosophy, literature, physics) around the shared insight that the observer can never step outside their own frame — Kant's phenomenology, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and Borges's labyrinths all encode the same deep truth about the limits of human knowledge.
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