Throwing the Moral Dice : Ethics and the Problem of Contingency /

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"More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency seems to have become today the very horizon of our everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unkno...

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Otros Autores: Marchi, Viola (Editor ), Claviez, Thomas (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ethics.
Contingency (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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