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Accident : a philosophical and literary history / Ross Hamilton.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, Ross, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristotle.
- Accidents (Philosophy).
- Substance (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The shock of experience
- Accidental origins : defining accidental qualities and events
- Divine substance : assimilation of accident within Christian theology
- Skeptical accidents : secularization of accident during the Reformation
- Accidental experience : radical enlightenment and the science of accident
- Novel accidents : self-determining accidents in print culture
- The textual self : opportunity and emotion in the creation of the individual
- The accidental sublime : returning substance to accidental events
- Altered states : the macroscopic impact of accidental qualities
- The form of accident : the boundaries of perception
- Envisioning accident : searching for substance in an accidental world
- Conclusion: Pattern recognition.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226314846
- 0226314847
- OCLC:
- 123349741
- Online:
- Publisher description
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