interested in the thought of the early 20th-century Austrian novelist Robert Musil (who wrote a thesis on philosophy), famous for his novel The Man Without Qualities, as well as the aversion/fascination with which Paul Valéry regarded philosophy. Incompleteness and philosophy Apart from his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Bouveresse is interested in the incompleteness theorems of Kurt Gödel and their philosophical consequences. It is on this account that he has attacked, in a popular work Prodiges et vertiges de l'analogie, the use made of these theorems by Régis Debray. Bouveresse denounces the literary distortion of a scientific concept for the purpose of a thesis. This distortion, according to him, has no other purpose than to overwhelm a readership which lacks the training necessary to comprehend such complex theorems. Bouveresse's reproach to Debray is not that he uses a scientific concept for the purpose of an analogy, but that he uses such a difficult to understand theorem in the attempt to provide an absolute justification in the form of the classic sophism of the argument from authority. According to Bouveresse, the incompleteness of a formal system which applies to certain mathematical systems in no way implies the incompleteness of sociology, which is not a formal system. Bibliography (in French) (Unless stated otherwise, published by Éditions de Minuit) 1969: La philosophie des sciences, du positivisme logique in Histoire de la philosophie, vol. 4. Ed. François Châtelet 1971: La parole malheureuse. De l'Alchimie linguistique à la grammaire philosophique 1973: Wittgenstein : la rime et la raison, science, éthique et esthétique 1976: Le mythe de l'intériorité. Expérience, signification et langage privé chez Wittgenstein 1984: Le philosophe chez les autophages 1984: Rationalité et cynisme 1987: La force de la règle, Wittgenstein et l'invention de la nécessité 1988: Le pays des possibles, Wittgenstein, les mathématiques et le monde réel 1991: Philosophie, mythologie et pseudo-science, Wittgenstein lecteur de Freud, Éditions de l'éclat 1991: Herméneutique et linguistique, suivi de Wittgenstein et la philosophie du langage, Éditions de l'éclat 1993: L'homme probable, Robert Musil, le hasard, la moyenne et l'escargot de l'Histoire, Éditions de l'éclat 1994: 'Wittgenstein', in Michel Meyer, La philosophie anglo-saxonne, PUF 1995: , Éditions Jacqueline Chambon 1996: La demande philosophique. Que veut la philosophie et que peut-on vouloir d'elle ?, Éditions de l'Eclat 1997: Dire et ne rien dire, l'illogisme, l'impossibilité et le non-sens, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon 1998: Le Philosophe et le réel. Entretiens avec Jean-Jacques