Law and Chance

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Written by one of the foremost Italian philosophers of the 20th century, Emanuele Severino's Law and Chance (Legge e Caso) explores how the concept of laws and legality push against the freedom to think freely and radically. Severino is increasingly being recognised as a truly foundational thinker in the formation of contemporary theory and his nuanced concept of legality explored in this work has particular relevance for issues around protest, police power and the role of personal conscience in how to live. The first English translation of this important work, Law and Chance is crucial reading for anyone engaged with the intersection between the law and personal freedom.

Emanuele Severino (1929 -2020) was an Italian philosopher. An original thinker and public intellectual, he is considered one of the most important Italian thinkers of the 20th century. Damiano Sacco is a philosopher and translator and fellow of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany.

Emanuele Severino always knew how to ask the most compelling, even frightening questions. If you fear the unlimited power of science, then ask yourself, why shouldn't power be limitless? What could put a limit to it? Perhaps only a philosophy that challenges the very notions of being and becoming. * Alessandro Carrera, Director in Italian Studies, University of Houston, USA *