The game of probability [[electronic resource] ] : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / / Rudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr |
Autore | Campe Rüdiger |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (503 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93384 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WigginsEllwood |
Collana |
Cultural Memory in the Present
Cultural memory in the present |
Soggetto topico |
European literature - 17th century - History and criticism
European literature - 18th century - History and criticism Probability in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8047-8466-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Survival
Part 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 13. "Probable" or Plausible": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities," or, A Romantic Ending; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462539803321 |
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The game of probability [[electronic resource] ] : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / / Rudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr |
Autore | Campe Rüdiger |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (503 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93384 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WigginsEllwood |
Collana |
Cultural Memory in the Present
Cultural memory in the present |
Soggetto topico |
European literature - 17th century - History and criticism
European literature - 18th century - History and criticism Probability in literature |
ISBN | 0-8047-8466-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Survival
Part 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 13. "Probable" or Plausible": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities," or, A Romantic Ending; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786198803321 |
Campe Rüdiger
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Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The game of probability : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / / Rudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr |
Autore | Campe Rüdiger |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (503 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93384 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WigginsEllwood |
Collana |
Cultural Memory in the Present
Cultural memory in the present |
Soggetto topico |
European literature - 17th century - History and criticism
European literature - 18th century - History and criticism Probability in literature |
ISBN | 0-8047-8466-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Survival
Part 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 13. "Probable" or Plausible": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities," or, A Romantic Ending; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808097903321 |
Campe Rüdiger
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Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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