The Poetry of (Anti-) Logical Ideas: Meaninglessness, Nominalism, and the Logic of Abstraction in Begriffliche Mathematik and Dadaism
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: : This article reconsiders Dadaism’s vexed relationship to logic as a means to embed modern mathematical developments within a more diverse modernist collective. In essence, I isolate in the formalist mathematics of the early 1900s a new form of functional logic that, despite appearances, finds operational parity in Dada ‘Antilogik’. With a nominalist approach to meaning and referentiality active in both domains, the formal procedures of mathematical modernism, exemplified by Emmy Noether’s begriffliche Mathematik , begin to align with the functional workings of Dada. In this light, a more mathematically inclusive understanding of modernism begins to take shape.
Source: The Modern Language Review
DOI: 10.1353/mlr.00175
Author: Tom Hedley
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7140301523
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