Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation, or making-strange, from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and ...
Continue Reading →Jacob Bernoulli’s Ars Conjectandi, published posthumously in Latin in 1713 by the Thurneysen Brothers Press in Basel, is the founding document of mathematical probability. Here, ...
Continue Reading →The Ausdehnungslehre of 1862 is Grassmann’s most mature presentation of his “extension theory”. The work was unique in capturing the full sweep of his mathematical ...
Continue Reading →The Foundations of Arithmetic (German: Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik) is a book by Gottlob Frege, published in 1884, which investigates the philosophical foundations of arithmetic. ...
Continue Reading →“Knowing how we know” is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, ...
Continue Reading →This first volume of Niklas Luhmann’s two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize ...
Continue Reading →The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (French: La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, in ...
Continue Reading →Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré is a book on the history of mathematics published in ...
Continue Reading →Declaration of Independence, in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 ...
Continue Reading →Author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson is among the most important and controversial of American political ...
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