1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955554903321

Autore

Robinson Forrest G (Forrest Glen), <1940->

Titolo

The jester and the sages : Mark Twain in conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx / / Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm, Catherine Carlstroem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia [Mo.] ; ; London, : University of Missouri Press, c2011

ISBN

9780826272706

0826272703

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

Mark Twain and his circle series

Classificazione

HT 4705

Altri autori (Persone)

BrahmGabriel

CarlstroemCatherine

Disciplina

818/.409

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Twain and Nietzsche / Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr. and Forrest G. Robinson -- Twain and Freud / Forrest G. Robinson -- Twain and Marx / Catherine Carlstroem and Forrest G. Robinson -- Conclusion / Catherine Carlstroem.

Sommario/riassunto

The Jester and the Sages approaches the life and work of Mark Twain by placing him in conversation with three eminent philosophers of his time-Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx. Unprecedented in Twain scholarship, this interdisciplinary analysis by Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., and Catherine Carlstroem rescues the American genius from his role as funny-man by exploring how his reflections on religion, politics, philosophy, morality, and social issues overlap the philosophers' developed thoughts on these subjects. Remarkably, they had much in common. During their lifetimes, Twain, Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx witnessed massive upheavals in Western constructions of religion, morality, history, political economy, and human nature. The foundations of reality had been shaken, and one did not need to be a philosopher-nor did one even need to read philosophy-to weigh in on what this all might mean. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary materials, the authors show that Twain was well attuned to debates of the time. Unlike his Continental



contemporaries, however, he was not as systematic in developing his views. Brahm and Robinson's chapter on Nietzsche and Twain reveals their subjects' common defiance of the moral and religious truisms of their time. Both desired freedom, resented the constraints of Christian civilization, and saw punishing guilt as the disease of modern man. Pervasive moral evasion and bland conformity were the principal end result, they believed. In addition to a continuing focus on guilt, Robinson discovers in his chapter on Freud and Twain that the two men shared a lifelong fascination with the mysteries of the human mind. From the formative influence of childhood and repression, to dreams and the unconscious, the mind could free people or keep them in perpetual chains. The realm of the unconscious was of special interest to both men as it pertained to the creation of art. In the final chapter, Carlstroem and Robinson explain that, despite significant differences in their views of human nature, history, and progress, Twain and Marx were both profoundly disturbed by economic and social injustice in the world. Of particular concern was the gulf that industrial capitalism opened between the privileged elite property owners and the vast class of property-less workers. Moralists impatient with conventional morality, Twain and Marx wanted to free ordinary people from the illusions that enslaved them. Twain did not know the work's of Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx well, yet many of his thoughts cross those of his philosophical contemporaries. By focusing on the deeper aspects of Twain's intellectual makeup, Robinson, Brahm, and Carlstroem supplement the traditional appreciation of the forces that drove Twain's creativity and the dynamics of his humor. &amp;nbsp;



2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00268539

Autore

Jacobsen, Martin

Titolo

Statistical Analysis of Counting Processes / Martin Jacobsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer-Verlag, 1982

Descrizione fisica

viii, 228 p. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

60-XX - Probability theory and stochastic processes [MSC 2020]

60G55 - Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) [MSC 2020]

62-XX - Statistics [MSC 2020]

62M07 - Non-Markovian processes: hypothesis testing [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00114598

Autore

Wendler, Tilo

Titolo

Data mining with SPSS modeler : theory, exercises and solutions / Tilo Wendler, Sören Gröttrup

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Cham], : Springer, 2016

Titolo uniforme

Data mining with SPSS modeler

Descrizione fisica

XII, 1059 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Gröttrup, Sören

Soggetti

62-XX - Statistics [MSC 2020]

62Hxx - Multivariate analysis [MSC 2020]

62Pxx - Applications of statistics [MSC 2020]

62R07 - Statistical aspects of big data and data science [MSC 2020]

68T09 - Computational aspects of data analysis and big data [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia