The End Of Fortuna And The Rise Of Modernity

Author : Arndt Brendecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110452596
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity written by Arndt Brendecke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences, analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs transformed, and traces the rise of complementary concepts such as those of probability, risk, fate and contingency. Thus, a multidisciplinary team of contributors sheds light on the surprising ways in which the end of Fortuna intersected with the rise of modernity.

Author : Arndt Brendecke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783110455052
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Author : Arndt Brendecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110455048
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity written by Arndt Brendecke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences, analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs transformed, and traces the rise of complementary concepts such as those of probability, risk, fate and contingency. Thus, a multidisciplinary team of contributors sheds light on the surprising ways in which the end of Fortuna intersected with the rise of modernity.

Author : Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004459960
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650 written by Ovanes Akopyan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, both geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed.

Author : Rónán Condon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316512002
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Network Responsibility written by Rónán Condon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-conceptualization of the normative frame of reference for contemporary tort law beyond the nation-state.

Author : Robert S. C. Gordon
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800083599
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Luck written by Robert S. C. Gordon and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beliefs, superstitions and tales about luck are present across all human cultures, according to anthropologists. We are perennially fascinated by luck and by its association with happiness and danger, uncertainty and aspiration. Yet it remains an elusive, ungraspable idea, one that slips and slides over time: all cultures reimagine what luck is and how to tame it at different stages in their history, and the modernity of the ‘long twentieth century’ is no exception to the rule. Apparently overshadowed by more conceptually tight, scientific and characteristically modern notions such as chance, contingency, probability or randomness, luck nevertheless persists in all its messiness and vitality, used in our everyday language and the subject of studies by everyone from philosophers to psychologists, economists to self-help gurus. Modern Luck sets out to explore the enigma of luck’s presence in modernity, examining the hybrid forms it has taken on in the modern imagination, and in particular in the field of modern stories. Indeed, it argues that modern luck is constituted through narrative, through modern luck stories. Analysing a rich and unusually eclectic range of narrative taken from literature, film, music, television and theatre – from Dostoevsky to Philip K. Dick, from Pinocchio to Cimino, from Curtiz to Kieślowski – it lays out first the usages and meanings of the language of luck, and then the key figures, patterns and motifs that govern the stories told about it, from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

Author : Elizabeth Tunstall
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031588932
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Succession Debate and Contested Authority in Elizabethan England, 1558–1603 written by Elizabeth Tunstall and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Tölle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110744600
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heirs of Flesh and Paper written by Tom Tölle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Heirs of Flesh and Paper" tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects’ practical responses to royal illness, failing princely reproduction, and heirs’ premature deaths. It treats connected dynastic crises between 1699 and 1716 as illustrative for early modern European political regimes in which the rulers’ corporeality defined politics. This political order grappled with the endemic uncertainties induced by dynastic bodies. By following the day-to-day practices of knowledge making in response to the unpredictability of royal health, the book shows how the ruling family’s mortal coils regularly threatened to destabilize the institutionalized legal fiction of kingship. Dynastic politics was not only as a transitory stage of state formation, part of elite cooperation, or a cultural construct. It needs to be approached through everyday practices that put ailing dynastic bodies front and center. In a period of intensifying political planning, it constituted one of the most important sites for changing the political itself.

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300271263
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignorance written by Peter Burke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 “Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which ‘not-knowing’ affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the “giant” of ignorance, and in today’s hyperconnected world seemingly limitless information is available on demand. But what about the knowledge lost over the centuries? Are we really any less ignorant than our ancestors? In this highly original account, Peter Burke examines the long history of humanity’s ignorance across religion and science, war and politics, business and catastrophes. Burke reveals remarkable stories of the many forms of ignorance—genuine or feigned, conscious and unconscious—from the willful politicians who redrew Europe’s borders in 1919 to the politics of whistleblowing and climate change denial. The result is a lively exploration of human knowledge across the ages, and the importance of recognizing its limits.

Author : Leader of the Emmy Noether-Research Group Practical Reasons Before Kant (1720-1780) Sonja Schierbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192869566
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Wolff's German Ethics written by Leader of the Emmy Noether-Research Group Practical Reasons Before Kant (1720-1780) Sonja Schierbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a collective exploration of the moral philosophy of Christian Wolff, one of the great philosophers of the 18th century. The contributors discuss major themes in Wolff's German Ethics of 1720, showing the importance of this work within the history of ethics and its continuing interest today.