..., chance is a better guide to our immediate intellectual and aesthetic preferences, even though it presumes no explanation of our comprehensive cultural formation. Although never right, chance has the advantage of never being wrong. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 chance contradiction...

...David Raskin Díaz Eva , The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 ), 215 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...Caryl Emerson Kelly Aileen M. , The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 ), 582 pp. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...

... — notably, corruption and violent partisanship — this response focuses on a single theoretical issue: the logic of chance or randomness, which, according to its proponents, should rid politics of corruption and relieve representation of partisanship so as to ultimately prevent the formation of a ruling...

...Sidney Plotkin Though a radical critic of capitalist society, Thorstein Veblen was a political quietist. His ideas of social evolution, cultural lag, and predatory power help to explain why. Veblen saw the need for deep-seated social change but despaired of its chances. He was in crucial ways...

... negotiation. The final instance is of a modern European narrative in which the specific causes and consequences of the Great War are obscure to the soldiers fighting in it. It is random chance, rather than the negotiation or transcendence of difference, that is thought, in this mode, to determine who lives...

...John Gastil Abstract As part of the ongoing Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this essay replies to an article by Nadia Urbinati: “The Sovereignty of Chance: Can Lottery Save Democracy?” Urbinati's piece expresses reservations about the tendency of symposium contributions to support what...

... on a narrowly circumscribed topic. Herbert sets his theo- retical construct to creative work rather than enlisting its terminology to articu- late an understanding already established. His challenging book should be read and debated. Its argument is congenial to me, since I am inclined to attribute to chance...

..., but not at a level that science can articulate. Their connection is a simultaneity or prox- imity determined by chance . . . In a botany textbook, the rose is planted forever next to its genetic relation, the eglantine. An actual rose, however, is planted next to some...

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..., should be talking about miracles. When she was young she used to let her gaze wander over the bookshelf by the side of the piano while she did her finger exercises. One title happened to be across from her at eye level and she'd see it every time: Chance and Necessity , by Jacques Monod. Monod had once...

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... (a series of random events determine the end), while of course, contrary to Palmerston, Paul would tend to suggest that random events are indeed pseudo-random events, intentionally controlled by some nonhuman being. At this level, there is for Paul no distinction between chance and necessity...