The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature by John Lyons

The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture

John Lyons

211 pages missing pub info (editions)

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How the classical and medieval conceptions of Fortune shifted to the modern notion of chance Is chance nothing more than a projection of human desire on to the world? In this fascinating new study, John Lyons argues that the idea of chance assumed...

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