04632nam 2200817Ia 450 991096354970332120250425122722.09780804784665080478466310.1515/9780804784665(CKB)2670000000275280(EBL)1035249(OCoLC)818815353(SSID)ssj0000780321(PQKBManifestationID)12366512(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000780321(PQKBWorkID)10803253(PQKB)10272800(MiAaPQ)EBC1035249(DE-B1597)563837(DE-B1597)9780804784665(Au-PeEL)EBL1035249(CaPaEBR)ebr10608370(OCoLC)820830359(OCoLC)1198930703(Perlego)745179(EXLCZ)99267000000027528020120309d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrie490The game of probability literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist /Rüdiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr1st ed.Stanford, California :Stanford University Press,[2012].1 online resource (503 pages)Cultural memory in the present"Originally published in German under the title Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit."9780804768641 0804768641 9780804768658 080476865X Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Introduction; Part I. Games for Example; 1. Theology and the Law: Dice in the Air; 2. Numbers and Calculation in Context: The Game of Decision-Pascal; 3. Writing the Calculation of Chances: Justiceand Fair Game-Christiaan Huygens; 4. Probability, a Postscript to the Theory of Chance: Logic and Contractual Law-Arnauld, Leibniz, Pufendorf; 5. Probability Applied: Ancient Topoi and the Theory of Games of Chance-Jacob Bernoulli; 6. Continued Proclamations: The Law of logica probabilium-Leibniz; 7. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or, The Improbability of SurvivalPart II. Verisimilitude Spelled Out8. Numbers and Tables in Narration: Juristsand Clergymen and Their Bureaucratic Hobbies; 9. Novels and Tables: Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Schnabel's Die Insel Felsenburg; 10. The Theory of Probability and the Form of the Novel: Daniel Bernoulli on Utility Value, the Anthropology of Risk, and Gellert's Epistolary Fiction; 11. "Improbable Probability": The Theory of the Novel and Its Trope-Fielding's Tom Jones and Wieland's Agathon; 12. The Appearance of Truth: Logic, Aesthetics,and Experimentation-Lambert13. "Probable" or Plausible": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities," or, A Romantic Ending; Conclusion; Notes; BibliographyThere 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 terms. Indeed, mathematical probability would not even have been possible without the other probability, whose roots lay in classical antiquity. The Game of Probability revisits the seventeenth and eighteenth-century ""probabilistic revolution,"" providing a history of the reCultural memory in the presentCultural memory in the presentEuropean literature17th centuryHistory and criticismEuropean literature18th centuryHistory and criticismProbability in literatureProbabilitat en la literaturalemacLiteratura europeaS. XVIIHistòria i críticalemacLiteratura europeaS. XVIIIHistòria i críticalemacEuropean literatureHistory and criticism.European literatureHistory and criticism.Probability in literature.Probabilitat en la literaturaLiteratura europeaS. XVIIHistòria i críticaLiteratura europeaS. XVIIIHistòria i crítica809/.93384Campe Rüdiger852262MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963549703321The game of probability4371567UNINA