The Long Shadow of the Parafinite: Three Scenes from the Prehistory of a Concept

Bassler, O. Bradley

ISBN 10: 1942795904 / ISBN 13: 9781942795902

Published by Docent Press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Long Shadow of the Parafinite: Three Scenes from the Prehistory of a Concept
• Publisher: Docent Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1942795904
• ISBN 13: 9781942795902
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The book addresses questions in the history and philosophy of mathematics. It is part of a long-term project rethinking the status of metaphysics in the modern European-American tradition.

About the Author

O. Bradley Bassler studied in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and took a second Ph.D. in Mathematics at Wesleyan University. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA and is the author of The Pace of Modernity: Reading with Blumenberg (re.press, 2012).