The Uncontrollability of the World
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The driving cultural force of that form of life we call 'modern' is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world - only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world.
Our lives are played out on the border between what we can control and that which lies outside...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1509543163
ISBN13:9781509543168
Release Date:December 2020
Publisher:Polity Press
Length:140 Pages
Weight:0.67 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"
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