LEADER 04376nam 22006975 450 001 9910367644003321 005 20210716003242.0 010 $a0-8232-8627-4 010 $a0-8232-8384-4 010 $a0-8232-8385-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823283859 035 $a(CKB)4100000007178978 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5607556 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5726175 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002146428 035 $a(OCoLC)1077589010 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72708 035 $a(DE-B1597)555099 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823283859 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007178978 100 $a20200723h20192019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Mathematical Imagination$b[electronic resource] $eOn the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory /$fMatthew Handelman 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (287 pages) 225 1 $aFordham scholarship online 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2019. 311 0 $a0-8232-8382-8 311 0 $a0-8232-8383-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. The Problem of Mathematics in Critical Theory --$tOne. The Trouble with Logical Positivism: Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and the Origins of Critical Theory --$tTwo. The Philosophy of Mathematics: Privation and Representation in Gershom Scholem?s Negative Aesthetics --$tThree. Infinitesimal Calculus: Subjectivity, Motion, and Franz Rosenzweig?s Messianism --$tFour. Geometry: Projection and Space in Siegfried Kracauer?s Aesthetics of Theory --$tConclusion. Who?s Afraid of Mathematics? Critical Theory in the Digital Age --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical theory steadfastly opposed the mathematization of thought. Mathematics flattened thought into a dangerous positivism that led reason to the barbarism of World War II. The Mathematical Imagination challenges this narrative, showing how for other German-Jewish thinkers, such as Gershom Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig, and Siegfried Kracauer, mathematics offered metaphors to negotiate the crises of modernity during the Weimar Republic. Influential theories of poetry, messianism, and cultural critique, Handelman shows, borrowed from the philosophy of mathematics, infinitesimal calculus, and geometry in order to refashion cultural and aesthetic discourse. Drawn to the austerity and muteness of mathematics, these friends and forerunners of the Frankfurt School found in mathematical approaches to negativity strategies to capture the marginalized experiences and perspectives of Jews in Germany. Their vocabulary, in which theory could be both mathematical and critical, is missing from the intellectual history of critical theory, whether in the work of second generation critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas or in contemporary critiques of technology. The Mathematical Imagination shows how Scholem, Rosenzweig, and Kracauer?s engagement with mathematics uncovers a more capacious vision of the critical project, one with tools that can help us intervene in our digital and increasingly mathematical present. 410 0$aFordham scholarship online. 606 $aCritical theory 606 $aJewish philosophy$y20th century 606 $aMathematics$xPhilosophy 610 $aDigital Humanities. 610 $aGerman-Jewish thought. 610 $aKracauer. 610 $aRosenzweig. 610 $aScholem. 610 $aThe Frankfurt School. 610 $acritical theory. 610 $amathematics. 615 0$aCritical theory. 615 0$aJewish philosophy 615 0$aMathematics$xPhilosophy. 676 $a301.01 700 $aHandelman$b Matthew$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01048206 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910367644003321 996 $aThe Mathematical Imagination$92476339 997 $aUNINA