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The Game of Probability - Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist (Paperback)
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The Game of Probability - Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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There 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 relations between mathematical and rhetorical techniques,
between the scientific and the aesthetic. This was a revolution
that overthrew the "order of things," notably the way that science
and art positioned themselves with respect to reality, and its
participants included a wide variety of people from as many walks
of life. Campe devotes chapters to them in turn. Focusing on the
interpretation of games of chance as the model for probability and
on the reinterpretation of aesthetic form as verisimilitude (a
critical question for theoreticians of that new literary genre, the
novel), the scope alone of Campe's book argues for probability's
crucial role in the constitution of modernity.
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