LEADER 04136nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910808097903321 005 20240313045009.0 010 $a0-8047-8466-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804784665 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275280 035 $a(EBL)1035249 035 $a(OCoLC)818815353 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000780321 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12366512 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000780321 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10803253 035 $a(PQKB)10272800 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1035249 035 $a(DE-B1597)563837 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804784665 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1035249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10608370 035 $a(OCoLC)820830359 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930703 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275280 100 $a20120309d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe game of probability $eliterature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist /$fRudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (503 p.) 225 0 $aCultural Memory in the Present 225 0$aCultural memory in the present 300 $a"Originally published in German under the title Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit." 311 $a0-8047-6864-1 311 $a0-8047-6865-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; 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 Survival 327 $aPart 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-Lambert 327 $a13. "Probable" or Plausible": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities," or, A Romantic Ending; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography 330 $aThere exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scientific terms. Indeed, mathematical probability would not even have been possible without the other probability, whose roots lay in classical antiquity. The Game of Probability revisits the seventeenth and eighteenth-century ""probabilistic revolution,"" providing a history of the re 410 0$aCultural Memory in the Present 606 $aEuropean literature$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEuropean literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aProbability in literature 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aProbability in literature. 676 $a809/.93384 700 $aCampe$b Ru?diger$0852262 701 $aWiggins$b Ellwood$01720152 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808097903321 996 $aThe game of probability$94118560 997 $aUNINA