In Defense of the Accidental (Apologie des Zufälligen): Philosophical StudiesOxford University Press, 25 jul 1991 - 144 páginas 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. |
Índice
A Speech of Thanks | 3 |
Theodicy Motives in Modern Philosophy | 8 |
Philosophical Observations | 29 |
4 Universal History and Multiversal History | 50 |
5 The Age of Unworldliness? A Contribution to the Analysis of the Present | 71 |
6 On the Unavoidability of the Human Sciences | 91 |
Philosophical Reflections on Man | 109 |
Note on the Selections | 130 |
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Términos y frases comunes
absolute choice acceleration conformism age of unworldliness aiming directly alterative inertia answer century concept of sense continually creator critique culture demand for meaning dietetics directly at meaning eschatology example existing expectation of meaning experience experimental fact fateful accidents fatefully accidental Frankfurt freedom Geschichte grown-up Hegel Helmuth Plessner hermeneutic histories or stories human sciences idea of compensation interdisciplinary Joachim Ritter Kant Koselleck Leibniz life-world live loss of meaning Lübbe mankind Marcion Marquard metaphysics methodical doubt modern age modern philosophy modern the modern modern world becomes motive in modern motleyness multiversal natural sciences negative nonsense one's orientations philosophical anthropology philosophy of history positive precisely problem progress question reality result revolution revolutionary sense or meaning separation of powers skepticism Studium Generale Stuttgart tachogenic unworldliness theodicy motive thesis things tion total science tradition trans Translator's Notes tribunal unburdening universal history usual practices Werke Wolf Lepenies