Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-218) and index.
Contents
The disappearance -- An arrest in Finland -- Escape -- Arrival in Paris -- The general and the zeitgeist -- When Braque met Picasso -- The cafe -- The achievements of Bourbaki -- Bourbaki's reign -- Claude Levi-Strauss and the birth of structuralism -- The linguistic origins -- Structuralism in psychology, psychiatry, and economics -- The literary group Oulip -- Alexandre Grothendieck and the IHES -- The death of Bourbaki and his legacy -- Selected bibliography -- Notes -- Index.