Worlds of Uncertainty - Couverture souple

Haldén, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009392689 ISBN 13 : 9781009392686

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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 Haldén 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. Haldén 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009392689
• ISBN 13: 9781009392686
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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