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

by O. Bradley Bassler (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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).