Matthew Handelman

The Mathematical Imagination

On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 the enduring relevance of mathematics for critical thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780823283828
• ISBN-10: 0823283828
• Artikelnr.: 53538268

Autorenporträt

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

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