Titel: Worlds of Uncertainty: War, Philosophies and Projects for Order (Paperback or Softback)
Verlag: Cambridge University Press 12/7/2023
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1009392689
ISBN-13: 9781009392686
Einband: Paperback or Softback
Zustand: New
Buchtyp: Book

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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�n 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�n 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.

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Peter Hald�n is Associate Professor in the Department of War Studies and Military History at the Swedish Defence University.

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