Matthew Handelman

The Mathematical Imagination

On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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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 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: Who's Afraid of Mathematics? Critical Theory in the Digital
Age, 187
Acknowledgments 201
Notes 205
Bibliography 245
Index 269