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ISBN: 0823283844 0823283852 0823286274 0823283836 0823283828 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press,
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This 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.
Mathematics --- Philosophy. --- Logic of mathematics --- Mathematics, Logic of --- Critical theory. --- Critical social theory --- Critical theory (Philosophy) --- Critical theory (Sociology) --- Negative philosophy --- Criticism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Sociology --- Frankfurt school of sociology --- Socialism --- Jewish philosophy --- Digital Humanities. --- German-Jewish thought. --- Kracauer. --- Rosenzweig. --- Scholem. --- The Frankfurt School. --- critical theory. --- mathematics. --- PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory.
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ISBN: 3110536536 3110534371 3110534320 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,
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How are digital humanists drawing on libraries and archives to advance research and learning in the field of religious studies and theology? How can librarians and archivists make their collections accessible to digital humanists? The goal of this volume is to provide an overview of how religious and theological libraries and archives are supporting the nascent field of digital humanities in religious studies. The volume showcases the perspectives of faculty, librarians, archivists, and allied cultural heritage professionals who are drawing on primary and secondary sources in innovative ways to create digital humanities projects in theology and religious studies. Topics include curating collections as data, conducting stylometric analyses of religious texts, and teaching digital humanities at theological libraries. The shift to digital humanities promises closer collaborations between scholars, archivists, and librarians. The chapters in this volume constitute essential reading for those interested in the future of theological librarianship and of digital scholarship in the fields of religious studies and theology.
RELIGION / General. --- Digital humanities. --- librarianship. --- religious studies. --- theology. --- Academic libraries --- Digital humanities --- Theological libraries --- Theology --- Sciences humaines numériques --- Théologie --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Effect of technological innovations on. --- Religious aspects. --- Administration. --- Research. --- Study and teaching.6 --- Aspect religieux. --- Bibliothèques --- Étude et enseignement. --- Recherche. --- Effets des innovations sur. --- Effect of technological innovations on --- Research --- Study and teaching --- Education, Theological --- Theological education --- Christian education --- Technological innovations --- Christian theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity --- Religion --- Religious libraries --- Humanities --- Study and teaching.
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