The Mathematical Imagination : On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory /
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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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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- 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