In Defense of the Accidental (Apologie des Zufalligen): Philosophical Studies

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Contents; Author's Note; 1. Skeptics: A Speech of Thanks; 2. Unburdenings: Theodicy Motives in Modern Philosophy; 3. On The Dietetics of the Expectation of Meaning: Philosophical Observations; 4. Universal History and Multiversal History; 5. The Age of Unworldliness? A Contribution to the Analysis of the Present; 6. On the Unavoidability of the Human Sciences; 7. In Defense of the Accidental: Philosophical Reflections on Man; Note on the Selections; Name Index; Subject Index.;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 theodicee; 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.