{"title":"David Nirenberg","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Nirenberg\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into complex historical dynamics, exploring the intersections of violence, identity, and community. His works delve deeply into how societies have understood and experienced conflict, enriching readers’ perspectives on historical narratives and cultural tensions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in \u003cem\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e will find his writing both rigorous and thought-provoking, blending scholarly research with accessible analysis. Nirenberg’s books challenge conventional views and invite reflection on the forces shaping human interaction across history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"uncountable-by-ricardo-l-nirenberg-9780226828367","title":"Uncountable","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRanging from math to literature to philosophy, \u003cem\u003eUncountable\u003c\/em\u003e explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge—and compromise our sense of humanity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur knowledge of mathematics has structured much of what we think we know about ourselves as individuals and communities, shaping our psychologies, sociologies, and economies. In pursuit of a more predictable and more controllable cosmos, we have extended mathematical insights and methods to more and more aspects of the world. Today those powers are greater than ever, as computation is applied to virtually every aspect of human activity. Yet, in the process, are we losing sight of the human? When we apply mathematics so broadly, what do we gain and what do we lose, and at what risk to humanity?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are the questions that David and Ricardo L. Nirenberg ask in \u003cem\u003eUncountable\u003c\/em\u003e, a provocative account of how numerical relations became the cornerstone of human claims to knowledge, truth, and certainty. There is a limit to these number-based claims, they argue, which they set out to explore. The Nirenbergs, father and son, bring together their backgrounds in math, history, literature, religion, and philosophy, interweaving scientific experiments with readings of poems, setting crises in mathematics alongside world wars, and putting medieval Muslim and Buddhist philosophers in conversation with Einstein, Schrödinger, and other giants of modern physics. The result is a powerful lesson in what counts as knowledge and its deepest implications for how we live our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000833032428,"sku":"9780226828367","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20511953482268.jpg?v=1763308693"},{"product_id":"communities-of-violence-by-david-nirenberg-9780691165769","title":"Communities of Violence","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks against minorities in fourteenth-century France and the Crown of Aragon (Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe argues that these attacks—ranging from massacres to verbal assaults against Jews, Muslims, lepers, and prostitutes—were often perpetrated not by irrational masses labouring under inherited ideologies and prejudices, but by groups that manipulated and reshaped the available discourses on minorities. Nirenberg shows that their use of violence expressed complex beliefs about topics as diverse as divine history, kinship, sex, money, and disease, and that their actions were frequently contested by competing groups within their own society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNirenberg's readings of archival and literary sources demonstrate how violence set the terms and limits of coexistence for medieval minorities. 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