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The Game of Probability
Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence...
The Power of Life
Agamben and the Coming Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Giorgio Agamben's work develops a new philosophy of life. On its horizon lies the conviction that our form of life can become the guiding and unifying power of the politics to come. Informed by this promise, The Power of Life weaves decisive moments and neglected aspects of Agamben's writings over...
Rabbis and Revolution
The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
The Habsburg province of Moravia straddled a complicated linguistic, cultural, and national space, where German, Slavic, and Jewish spheres overlapped, intermingled, and sometimes clashed. Situated in the heart of Central Europe, Moravia was exposed to major Jewish movements from the East and West,...
To Tell Their Children
Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlightenment...
On Historicizing Epistemology
An Essay
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with...
The Far Reaches
Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
When future historians chronicle the twentieth century, they will see phenomenology as one of the preeminent social and ethical philosophies of its age. The phenomenological movement not only produced systematic reflection on common moral concerns such as distinguishing right from wrong and explaining...
Crescent Moon over the Rational
Philosophical Interpretations of Paul Klee
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Why, and in what manner, did artist Paul Klee have such a significant impact on twentieth-century thinkers? His art and his writing inspired leading philosophers to produce key texts in twentieth-century aesthetics, texts that influenced subsequent art history and criticism.
Heidegger, Adorno,...
by Peter Baehr
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century. It focuses on Hannah Arendt's claim that totalitarianism was an entirely unprecedented regime and that the social sciences had integrally misconstrued it. A sociologist who is a critical...
Totalitarianism and Political Religion
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The totalitarian systems that arose in the twentieth century presented themselves as secular. Yet, as A. James Gregor argues in this book, they themselves functioned as religions. He presents an intellectual history of the rise of these political religions, tracing a set of ideas that include belief...
by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2002
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the...
Mourning Sickness
Hegel and the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the upheaval in German philosophy inaugurated by the Protestant Reformation and brought...
New Demons
Rethinking Power and Evil Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given...
Defending National Treasures
French Art and Heritage Under Vichy
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Defending National Treasures explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France. The French cultural patrimony was a crucial locus of power struggles between German and French leaders and among influential figures in each country. Karlsgodt examines the preservation...