Worlds of Uncertainty: War, Philosophies and Projects for Order (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009392693)

In recent years we have faced huge uncertainty and unpredictability across the world: Covid-19, political turbulence, climate change and war in Europe, among many other events. Through a historical analysis of worldviews, Peter Hald駭 provides nuance to the common belief in an uncertain world by showing the predictable nature of modern society and arguing that human beings create predictability through norms, laws, trust and collaboration. Hald駭 shows that, since the Renaissance, two worldviews define Western civilization: first, that the world is knowable and governed by laws, regularities, mechanisms or plan, hence it is possible to control and the future is possible to foresee; second, that the world is governed by chance, impossible to predict and control and therefore shocks and surprises are inevitable. Worlds of Uncertainty argues that between these two extremes lie positions that recognize the principal unpredictability of the world but seek pragmatic ways of navigating through it.

Author: Peter Hald駭
ISBN-10: 1009392697
ISBN-13: 9781009392693
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/07/2023
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d