In Defense of the Accidental (Apologie des Zufälligen) Philosophical Studies

by Marquand, Odo; Wallace, Robert M.

• ISBN13: 9780195072525
• ISBN10: 0195072529
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-07-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The seven essays collected in this book address the history of modern ideas and contemporary cultural issues. The first is the discourse of Marquard's acceptance of the Sigmund Freud prize; the second addresses the equivalence of modernity and the theodiceé ; the third confronts the idea of "meaning"; the fourth considers the notion of world history; the fifth addresses world alienation; the sixth deals with the human sciences; and the seventh is a mediation on chance and luck as essential aspects of the human condition.

Author Biography

Odo Marquard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Giessen, Germany

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. vii
Skeptics: A Speech of Thank	p. 3
Unburdenings: Theodicy Motives in Modern Philosophy	p. 8
On The Dietetics of the Expectation of Meaning: Philosophical Observations	p. 29
Universal History and Multiversal History	p. 50
The Age of Unworldliness? A Contribution to the Analysis of the Present	p. 71
On the Unavoidability of the Human Sciences	p. 91
In Defense of the Accidental: Philosophical Reflections on Man	p. 109
Note on the Selections	p. 130
Name Index	p. 131
Subject Index	p. 133
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