The Mathematical Imagination On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory

• Main Author: Handelman, Matthew (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Fordham University Press 2019
• Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; History of mathematics; Literary theory; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Philosophy; Mathematics; Language & Literature; Jewish Studies
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This book gives us a more capacious version of critical theory, providing humanists with tools to confront the digital age.This book joins a renaissance of scholarly interest in German-Jewish intellectuals, such as Siegfried Kracauer and Gershom Scholem, offering a unique synthesis of their insights...