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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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Main Author: Handelman, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mathematics > Philosophy.
Jewish philosophy.
Critical theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
Philosophie juive > 20e siecle.
Mathematiques > Philosophie.
Theorie critique.
Jewish philosophy > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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