The Myth of Luck: Philosophy, Fate, and Fortune

by Steven D. Hales

Book Overview

Luck is a golden thread woven through the tapestry of the history of ideas, uniting gods and gamblers, philosophers and theologians, emperors, scientists, and slaves. Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune.

The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350149292
• ISBN13: 9781350149298
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"