Winging it with Wittgenstein and Benjamin.
In this article, I consider the philosophical question of chance in the context of a comparative discussion of two early twentieth-century intellectuals, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) and Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), contemporaries who deliberately involved themselves in the risks of chance in the...
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