Gödelitis

I just finished a book by Jacques Bouveresse (Prodiges et vertiges de l'analogie 1999) in a Spanish translation (2001). In it  I found a useful term for the abuse of the mathematical theorems by Kurt Gödel: gödelitis (101). The main metaphorical abuses of the terms "incompleteness", "indecidability" and "irreversability" come from Derrida, Lacan, Serres, Lyotard etc. Bouveresse shows how the French counter-attack on Sokal / Bricmont, who exposed the mathematical incomptence of some of these thinkers, is mounted from a literary clique in Paris using important media they have access to.
Bouveresse takes this game of surprising analogies back to Spengler. Much of it reminds me also of the vertigo played on "infinity" by Kierkegaard and his followers. And "indecidability" seems to rehash the older "indeterminacy" analogy taken from Heisenberg. Irrational thinkers seem to modernize older patterns of the "destruction of reason." (Lukacs)