TY  - BOOK
AU  - Handelman,Matthew
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Mathematical Imagination : : On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory / 
SN  - 9780823283859
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - fast
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Regional Studies
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - critical theories (dialectical critiques)
KW  - aat
KW  - Philosophie juive
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - Mathematiques
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Theorie critique
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63133/
ER  -