Matthew Handelman

The Mathematical Imagination

On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory

• Gebundenes 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• 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: Who's Afraid of Mathematics? Critical Theory in the Digital
Age, 187
Acknowledgments 201
Notes 205
Bibliography 245
Index 269