Name: Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life (en Inglés)
SKU: 53501149
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Author: Miller, William Ian
ISBN: 9780197530689

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Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

William Ian Miller

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.6x15.5x2.3 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9780197530689

N° edición

Categorías

Filosofía humanista
Filosofía occidental desde 1800, aproximadamente
Filosofía ética y moral

Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life (en Inglés)

William Ian Miller (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Dura

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In this book, William Ian Miller offers his reflections on the perverse consequences, indeed often the opposite of intended effects, of so-called 'good things'. Noted for his remarkable erudition, wit, and playful pessimism, Miller here ranges over topics from personal disasters to literary and national ones. Drawing on a truly immense store of knowledge encompassing literature, philosophy, theology, and history, he excavates the evidence of human anxieties around scarcity in all its forms (from scarcity of food to luck to where we stand in the eyes of others caught in a game of musical chairs we often do not even know we are playing). With wit and sensitivity, along with a large measure of fearless self-scrutiny, he points to and invites us to recognize the gloomy, neurotic, despondent tendencies of reasonably sentient human life. The book is a careful examination of negative beliefs, inviting an experience of bleak fellow-feeling among the author, the reader and many a haplesssoul across the centuries. Just what makes you more nervous, he asks, a run of good luck, or a run of bad?