The game of probability
Subtitle: literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist
By: Rudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr
Series: Cultural memory in the present; Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780804768641; 9780804768658
Subjects: History and criticism; Probability in literature; European literature
Work titles: Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit
Notes: "Originally published in German under the title Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit."

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