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Book Title: The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist (Cultural Memory in the Present) Book Author: Rudiger Campe (Author), Ellwood Wiggins (Translator) Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Hardcover: 504 pages Publisher: Stanford University Press (January 9, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 0804768641 ISBN-13: 978-0804768641 Book Description Publication Date: January 9, 2013 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.  Review "Rüdiger Campe's The Game of Probability lays out—for the first time and in all its complexity—a semantic field crucial to our modernity: to our social and juridical modernity, to our scientific and mathematical modernity, to our literary modernity. The breadth and depth of learning upon which this book rests will make it an invaluable resource for scholars across the historical-humanistic disciplines and the bright light generated by its readings will illuminate countless research projects. This marvelous book belongs among the most distinguished publications to have emerged out of cultural studies in Germany during the past thirty years."—David E. Wellbery University of Chicago  About the Author Rüdiger Campe is Professor and Chair of German Language and Literature at Yale University. Sharing Widget |