Structure et évolution de La Philosophie de l’algèbre de Jules Vuillemin (tomes I et II)

Abstract

Jules Vuillemin’s dense book La Philosophie de l’algèbre (volume I and II) was only partially published and may appear somewhat composite. In contrast, we show that this manifesto of structure in philosophy is systematic rather than rhapsodic—its component parts take their full meaning only when examined in relationship to the whole. Far from questioning the result of such structural analyses, genetic considerations reveal Vuillemin’s effort to preserve systematicity through all the successive transformations.