Michael Friedman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Friedman is involved.
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2026 From a protective space to an erupting crisis: Rousseau, Freud and Blumenberg on mathematics and its metaphors Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context, Leonardis, Irene (ed.), pp. 241–260 | Chapter
Which metaphors can be employed to account for a crisis of sexuality? And how is mathematics even related to such a crisis? At the end of the 18th century, Rousseau viewed mathematics as a “safe place” which should be protected from such crises of sexuality. At the beginning of the 20th century,… read more