"Providence and Science in a World of Contingency offers a novel assessment of the contemporary debate over divine providential action and the natural sciences, suggesting a re-consideration of Thomas Aquinas' metaphysical doctrine of providence coupled with his account of natur…
"Van der Heiden works largely with present-day thinkers such as Badiou, Nancy, Romano, Meillassoux, and Agamben, and examines contemporary thought as it seeks to recover a sense of the absolute, but without recourse to specifically theological underpinnings"--
"Van der Heiden works largely with present-day thinkers such as Badiou, Nancy, Romano, Meillassoux, and Agamben, and examines contemporary thought as it seeks to recover a sense of the absolute, but without recourse to specifically theological underpinnings"--
Long description:>>Thema: Theorie der Gesellschaft; Laufzeit: 30 Jahre; Kosten: keine<<- so lautet die berühmte Antwort, die Niklas Luhmann Ende der 1960er Jahre auf die Frage nach seinem Forschungsprojekt gab. Der Zeitplan wurde eingehalten: 1997 erschien Die Gesellschaft der G…
Eine kritisch befragende Politische Theorie behandelt aktuelle Fragen auf augenöffnende Weise. Oliver Flügel-Martinsen stellt eine solche kritische Zeitdiagnose, die angesichts der globalen Coronakrise besondere Bedeutung hat. Dabei geht es um das Verhältnis von Wahrheitsskepsis…
"One of the key supposed 'platitudes' of contemporary epistemology is the claim that knowledge excludes luck. In this book, Duncan Pritchard argues that we do not need to choose between these two austere alternatives, since a closer examination of what is involved in the notion …