Introduction: Natural philosophies of fortune-luck, vitality, and uncontrolled relatedness

Social Analysis

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-23

  da Col, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chance; Contingency; Cosmoeconomics; Fortune; Luck; Nature; Uncontrolled relatedness; Vitality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864084436     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2012.560102     Document Type: Article

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