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On Risk
Engelsk Paperback
On Risk
Engelsk Paperback

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With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it?

As we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, considerations of everyday risk have been more pressing, and inescapable. In the past, everyone engaged in some degree of risky behaviour, from mundane realities like taking a shower or getting into a car to purposely thrill-seeking activities like rock-climbing or BASE jumping. Many activities that seemed high-risk, such as flying, were claimed basically safe. But risk was, and always has been, a fact of life. With new focus on the risks of even leaving the safety of our homes, it’s time for a deeper consideration of risk itself. How do we manage and distribute risks? How do we predict uncertain outcomes? If risk can never be completely eliminated, can it perhaps be controlled? At the heart of these questions—which govern everything from waking up each day to the abstract mathematics of actuarial science—lie philosophical issues of life, death, and danger. Mortality is the event-horizon of daily risk. How should we conceive of it?

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
128
ISBN-13:
9781771963923
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1771963921
Udg. Dato:
24 dec 2020
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
114mm
Højde:
190mm
Forlag:
Biblioasis
Oplagsdato:
24 dec 2020
Forfatter(e):
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