Epilogue

Swapna Mukhopadhyay

Wolff-Michael Roth

Brian Greer

pp. 313-323

in: Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Wolff-Michael Roth (eds), Alternative forms of knowing (in) mathematics, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2012

Abstract

The term epilogue derives from the Greek epilogos, the concluding or perorating part (Gr. epi-, in addition) of speech (Gr. logos). In more recent times, the term also denotes the concluding part of a literary work, a summary. An interesting form of an epilogue consists in the metalogue, a conversation that takes previous conversations or text to take it to another level (Bateson, 1980). Metalogue literally is talk about talk, meta-talk.