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Mathematics and the Roots of Postmodern Thought

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This wonderful book digests more than a century of
Western philosophical thought and interconnects it with
the recent controversies over the foundations of mathematics.
Unlike Sokal & Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense, which is
very unsympathetic to the French Postmodern school, Tasic
is quite sympathetic to them. Indeed, he manages to
extract and explain the basic ideas of many, many philosophers
and intellectuals who had previously seemed quite opaque.
Highly recommended! An exceptional and important book!
---Gregory Chaitin, IBM Research Division,
author of Conversations with a Mathematician

A good way to read about mathematical philosophy. A bit dry and heavy in parts. I don't know a lot about postmoderism but am learning, as many of the people I read and write about are postmodernists. People seem to rave about postmodernists but even though some are maybe out to lunch which is bad because they have responsiblilities for the disabled as psyhciatrists, they have some interesting points for thought. Don't get blind sided by postmodernism, study first year calculus at least in your fine arts degree.