The game of probability : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / Rudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr.

Author/Creator:

Campe, Rüdiger, author.

Standardized Title:

Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit. English

Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present

Format/Description:

Book
486 pages ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

European literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
European literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Probability in literature.

Contents:

Theology and the law : dice in the air
Numbers and calculus in context : the game of decision; Pascal
Writing the calculation of chances : justice and fair game; Huygens
Probability, a postscript for the doctrine of chances : logic and contractual law; Arnauld, Leibniz, Pufendorf
Probability applied : ancient topoi and the theory of games of chance; Jacob Bernoulli
Continued proclamation : the law of logica probabilium; Leibniz
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or the improbability of survival
Numbers and tables in narration : jurists and clergymen and their bureaucratic hobbies
Novels and tables : Defoe's A journal of the plague year; Schnabel's Felsenburg Island
The theory of probability and the form of the novel : Daniel Bernoulli on utility value, the anthropology of risk, and Gellert's epistolary fiction
'Improbable probability' : the theory of the novel and its trope; Fielding's Tom Jones and Wieland's Agathon
The appearance of truth : logic, aesthetics, and experimentation; Lambert
'Probable' or 'plausible' : mathematical formula versus philosophical discourse; Kant
Kleist's improbable veracities, or, a romantic ending.

Notes:

"Originally published in German under the title Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit."
Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780804768641 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804768641 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804768658 (pbk. : alk. paper)
080476865X (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

781077747

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