Graced with lyricism, The Waiting Game is an engaging meditation on the ways in which human beings are forced — and choose — to mark time, from earliest childhood to the final moments of life. This is an unsparing, yet often poetic, essay on the ordeals and pleasures inherent in the universal experience of waiting. (Jamie Venise, Ph.D.)
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Acclaimed poet and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes a fresh, sobering look at our faith in statistics, our desire to predict the future, and our dependence on fortuitousness. Tracing the interface between chance and probability in medical diagnostics, risk models, economics, and the fluctuations of financial markets, Fatal Numbers goes straight to the heart of what it means to live, plan, and make decisions in a globalized, digitized, hyperlinked, science-driven, and uncertain world ...
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What counts is the one, unattended second, the moment of inspiration that can never be forced and that decides all. It gives the beginning, it sets in motion the production of sense. The poem is the literary form that most purely captures this moment of inception. I might even go so far as to say that poetry is in large part born from the desire to start over as often as possible ...
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- 17 Vorurteile
- Descartes' Devil: Three Meditations
- Fatal Numbers: Why Count on Chance
- November Rose: A Speech on Death
- November-Rose: Eine Rede über den Tod
- Philosophical Fragments of a Contemporary Life
- The DNA of Prejudice: On the One and the Many
- The Vocation of Poetry
- The Waiting Game: An Essay on the Gift of Time