Philosophy
The philosophical universe
The philosophical universe: simplicity, childhood, creation, community, responsibility, rupture, solitude, dreams, and the limits of possession. Preface
Where the book names them
Each word of the Preface’s sentence, with the chapters and sections whose titles name it.
Simplicity
Childhood
- 3A child without memoriesChapter 3 · Berlin, 1928
- 5Two children, two historiesChapter 5 · The Road South
- 6The child was not a copy of the father’s papersChapter 6 · Stateless
- 6The father’s condition in the child’s storyChapter 6 · Stateless
- 9Children in institutional recordsChapter 9 · Le Chambon
- 11A Child of War
- 11What “child of war” can meanChapter 11 · A Child of War
- 51The child and the studentChapter 51 · The Classroom and the World
- 56The child, the boss, and the work of attentionChapter 56 · Reaping and Sowing
- 69Fifth path: a child’s drawing and the absolute Galois groupChapter 69 · Mathematics after Grothendieck
Creation
Community
- 25Teaching a language before a community spoke itChapter 25 · A New Foundation
- 29Community without a group portraitChapter 29 · The House at Bures
- 29Institute, school, and communityChapter 29 · The House at Bures
- 55From copies to a research communityChapter 55 · A Sketch of a Programme
- 57Community after the centerChapter 57 · The Ethics of Credit
Responsibility
Rupture
Solitude
Dreams
- 24The trace-formula dreamChapter 24 · Toward Geometry
- 59Dreams and Proofs
- 59The Dreamer and the standards of a claimChapter 59 · Dreams and Proofs
- 59Dreams and mathematical creationChapter 59 · Dreams and Proofs
- 59Dreams, psychoanalysis, and non-equivalenceChapter 59 · Dreams and Proofs
- 59Dreams in letters and dreams in the bookChapter 59 · Dreams and Proofs
- 62The Dream Manuscript
- 62From dreams to psyche and cosmosChapter 62 · The Dream Manuscript