Matthew Handelman

The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Matthew Handelman is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Michigan State University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9780823283835
• ISBN-10: 0823283836
• Artikelnr.: 53544824

Autorenporträt

Matthew Handelman

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Problem of Mathematics in Critical Theory, 1 1. The Trouble with Logical Positivism: Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and the Origins of Critical Theory, 25 2. The Philosophy of Mathematics: Privation and Representation in Gershom Scholem
s Negative Aesthetics, 65 3. Infinitesimal Calculus: Subjectivity, Motion, and Franz Rosenzweig
s Messianism, 104 4. Geometry: Projection and Space in Siegfried Kracauer
s Aesthetics of Theory, 145 Conclusion: Whös Afraid of Mathematics? Critical Theory in the Digital Age, 187 Acknowledgments 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 245 Index 269