Abstract
Preface: The Phantom of Chance Starting in the middle of things The end of fortune and the rise of chance Acknowledgements Series Editor's Foreword Introduction The tradition of chance Aristotle and the third type of event Fortuna and casus Boethius and the wheel of fortune Machiavelli and the dissolution of fortune Montaigne and the sceptical challenge 1. Fortune, Mistress of Events: Corneille and the Poetics of Tragedy Chance as cornerstone of poetics Clitandre, and the poetics of gratuity Le Cid and the management of chance Miracles in everyday life 2. God in a World of Chance: Pascal's Pensees and Lettres provinciales The Random human condition From probability to frequency in the Provinciales The coming of the Messiah was not an effect of chance When the game is over 3. From Chance Events to Improbable Actions: Lafayette and the Novel The shipwreck of romance Everyday encounters Silent Chance 4. The God of Suspense: Bossuet's providential history and Racine's Athalie God's anamorphic history Racine's tragedy of errors 5. An Accidental World: La Bruyere's Caracteres The Heart Occasion Love Machines Fashion Index.
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