num_pages: 144
description: 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.
language: English
title: In Defense of the Accidental (Apologie des Zufälligen): Philosophical Studies
titlecomplete: In Defense of the Accidental (Apologie des Zufälligen): Philosophical Studies (Odéon)
genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Oxford University Press