The mathematical imagination : on the origins and promise of critical theory /

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During the Weimar Republic, mathematics provided Gershom Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig, and Siegfried Kracauer - friends and forerunners of the Frankfurt School - with tools to navigate the crises of modernity. This study explores the histories of mathematics at the origin of critical theory and shows t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Handelman, Matthew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
1900-1999
Critical theory.
Mathematics > Philosophy.
Jewish philosophy > 20th century.
Théorie critique.
Mathématiques > Philosophie.
Philosophie juive > 20e siècle.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Critical theory
Jewish philosophy
Mathematics > Philosophy
Digital Humanities.
German-Jewish thought.
Kracauer.
Rosenzweig.
Scholem.
The Frankfurt School.
critical theory.
mathematics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; The Mathematical Imagination; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction: The Problem of Mathematics in Critical Theory; 1. The Trouble with Logical Positivism: Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and the Origins of Critical Theory; 2. The Philosophy of Mathematics: Privation and Representation in Gershom Scholem's Negative Aesthetics; 3. Infinitesimal Calculus: Subjectivity, Motion, and Franz Rosenzweig's Messianism; 4. Geometry: Projection and Space in Siegfried Kracauer's Aesthetics of Theory; Conclusion: Who's Afraid of Mathematics? Critical Theory in the Digital Age; Acknowledgments

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