Wisdom must always have counters in her hand to play with… Our soul wants to be moved by the passions of hope or fear; it is made happy only by things that cause it to feel alive. Now gambling places us perpetually in the grip of these two passions, and consequently holds our soul in an emotion that is one of the great principles of happiness to be found in us. The pleasure that gambling has given me has often served to console me for not being rich… Every age has its own pleasures; those of old age are the most difficult to obtain: gambling, studying, if one is still capable of it.
Emilie du Châtelet Discourse on Happiness 1748
the task itself appeared larger than I had thought
RB Onians The Origins of European Thought about the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate 1951
It was then that I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for not being lucky.
Anita Brookner Look at Me 1983
The list below is a partial bibliography of my reading to research LUCK. The core texts are by FN David and Lorraine Daston.
The works are listed in the order they are cited or referred to in the book.
Introduction
Petrarch The Life of Solitude [1356]
Al Alvarez The Biggest Game in Town 1983
James McManus Positively 5th Street 2003
Anthony Holden Big Deal 1990
George Eliot Middlemarch 1871
https://www.random.org/lists/
1 – The Philosopher
Ray Monk Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius 1990
Noel Malcolm Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir 1958
Wittgensteinian Themes 1995
Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 1921
Notebooks 1914-1916 1961
Brian McGuinness (ed) Cambridge Letters 1997
Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters & Documents 2012
Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical investigations 1953
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics 1956 The Blue & Brown Books: Preliminary Studies for the Philosophical Investigations 1958
‘Philosophical Investigations’ 1958
Paul Engelmann Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein with a Memoir 1974
David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 1748
FA Flowers (ed) Portraits of Wittgenstein 2015
Bernard Leitner The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein 1973
Brian McGuinness Young Ludwig 1988
Richard Wall Wittgenstein in Ireland 2000
Alexander Waugh The House of Wittgenstein 2008
Franz Kafka Letters to Felice 1967
Diogenes Sayings and Anecdotes [c350 BCE] 2012
Diogenes Laertius Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers [c225] 2018
3 – The Wit of Thomas Bastard
Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince [1532]
Thomas Bastard Chrestoleros: Seven bookes of epigrames 1598
Dictionary of National Biography ‘Thomas Bastard’
Anthony À Wood Athenae Oxonienses : an exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford : to which are added the Fasti, or Annals of the said University 1691
Steven W May & Alan Bryson Verse Libel in Elizabethan England 2016
John Danby Elizabethan and Jacobean Poets 1952
Rachel Lloyd Dorset Elizabethans 1967
Philip Sidney Defense of Poesie 1595
William Shakespeare As You Like It Act 1, Sc 2 1599
Juvenal Satire X, 364-366 [c110]
Wittgenstein Tractatus
Alexander Pope Essay on Man 1734
John Harington A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called The Metamorphosis of Ajax 1596
Samuel Chew The Pilgrimage of Life 1962
Howard R Patch The Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature 1922
Niccolò Machiavelli The Discourses on Livy [1531]
Anthony Parel The Political Calculus: Essays on Machiavelli’s Philosophy 1972
Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy [523]
Aristotle Politics 1323a36 [c350BCE]
Castaglione Book of the Courtier [1528]
Esther Eidinow Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy OUP 2011
Petrarch (ed & tr Conrad Rawski) Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul [c1370] 1991
Thomas Kavanagh Dice, Cards and Wheels 2005
Frederick Kiefer Fortune and Elizabethan Tragedy 1982
JGA Pocock The Machiavellian Moment 1975
DNB ‘Philip Sidney’
Fulke Greville Life of Sir Philip Sidney, 1611
Philip Sidney Arcadia 1593
Thomas Bastard Seven Sermons 1615
Five Sermons 1615
The Poems, English and Latin, of the Rev. Thomas Bastard 1880
John Aubrey Brief Lives c1690
Ruth Scurr John Aubrey: My Own Life 2015
DNB ‘John Harington’
‘John Hoskins’
Ariosto Orlando Furioso, translated into English heroical verse by John Harington 1591
John Harington Treatise on Playe [c1597] in Nugae Antiquae: Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Original Papers in Prose and Verse: Written in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Mary, Elizabeth, King James, &c by Sir J Harington and others 1792
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1595 Act 5: Scene 1
Machiavelli The Prince 1532
Thomas More Fortune verses 1504
Sidney H Atkins letter to TLS, September 26 1936
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=thomas+bastard&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
“Thomas Bastard” internet search 16 October 2020
‘Thomas Bastard’ Poetry Foundation https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas-bastard
https://www.thereader.org.uk/featured-poem-epigram-by-thomas-bastard/
4 – Roulettenburg
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot 1869
Polina Suslova Diary 6 September 1863
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler 1866
Sigmund Freud ‘Dostoevsky and Parricide’, 1928
Fyodor Dostoevsky (ed Joseph Frank) Selected Letters, 1987
Anna Dostoevsky Reminiscences 1923
Joseph Frank Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years 1865-1871 1995
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation 1860-1865 1983
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal 1850-1859 1983
Dostoevsky The House of the Dead 1862
The Diary of a Writer 1873
Leonid Grossman Confession of a Jew 1924
Joseph Frank ‘The Gambler: A Study in Ethnopsychology’ TheHudson Review, Vol. 46, No. 2 Summer, 1993
Friedrich Nietzsche Twilight of the Idols 1889
Janko Lavrin ‘A Note on Nietzsche and Dostoevsky’, Russian Review, Vol. 28, No. 2 Apr., 1969
Mihail Bakhtin Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics 1963
Dostoevsky The Raw Youth 1875
5 – Getting God to Speak
Anna Dostoevsky Reminiscences
Homer Odyssey [c725 BCE]
Iliad [c762 BCE]
Virgil Aeneid [19 BCE]
Robert Coleman ‘The Gods in the Aeneid’, Greece & Rome 1982
Rachel Lesses Ritual Practices to Gain Power 1994
David Potter Prophets and Emperors 1994
Helen A. Loane ‘The Sortes Vergilianae’ The Classical Weekly, Vol. 21, No. 24 Apr. 30, 1928
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone 1868
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1719
Augustine Confessions c400
Bible
FN David Games, Gods and Gambling 1962
Pieter W. van der Horst ‘Sortes: Sacred Books as Instant Oracles in Late Antiquity’ in The Use of Sacred Books in the Ancient World, Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 1998
Augustine Epistle 55.20.37
Katz in Classical and Modern Literature 1994
Suetonius The Twelve Caesars 121
Cicero On Divination 44BCE
Domenico Camparetti Vergil in the Middle Ages 1872
Geoffrey W Dennis, ‘The Use of Water as a Medium for Altered States of Consciousness in Early Jewish Mysticism: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis’ in Anthropology of Consciousness Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 84–106. 2008
Jewish Encyclopedia 1906
Jan Ziolkowski & Michael Putnam (eds) The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years, Yale UP, 2008
Bruce Metzger, Michael Coogan (eds) The Oxford Companion to the Bible 1993
Francis Verney (ed) The Verney Memoirs 1600-1659 1892
Philip Sidney Defense of Poesie 1595
Roger E Moore ‘Sir Philip Sidney’s Defense of Prophesying’ Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 50, No. 1 2010
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire vol. 1 1776
Thomas Witton Davies Magic, Divination and Demonology among the Hebrews
1898
Steven J Brams Biblical Games 1980
Cornelis Van Dam The Urim and Thummim 1997
GR Potter (on Ulrich Zwingli) Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1976
Patrick Collinson The Elizabethan Puritan Movement Berkeley 1967
James Welwood Memoirs of the most material transactions in England for the last hundred years 1688
Lorraine Daston Classical Probability in the Enlightenment 1988
Abbé Coudrette Dissertation théologique sur les loteries 1742
Encyclopédie 1751
Jewish Encyclopedia 1906
Casanova Story of my Life 1798
Thomas Gataker The Nature and Use of Lots 1627
Jeremy Collier ‘An Essay on Gaming’ 1713
Historia Augusta [[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/home.html [c400]
Encyclopedia Brittanica ‘Lotteries’
Suetonius The Twelve Caesars
Catholic Encyclopedia ‘Gambling’
Roger Caillois Man, Play and Games 1961
Neil Duxbury Random Justice 1999
John Wesley Journal
Bufford W Coe John Wesley and Marriage 1996
Eastland Stuart Staveley Greek and Roman voting and elections 1972
D. R. Bellhouse ‘Probability in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: An Analysis of Puritan Casuistry’ International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique Vol. 56 No. 1 1988
The Genoese Lottery’ Statistical Science 1991
Barbara Goodwin Justice by Lottery 1992
Journal of Value Inquiry 2010 44
Peter Stone The luck of the draw 2011
Keith Thomas Religion and the Decline of Magic 1971
Chris Lewin ‘Doubting Thomas’ Actuary June 2008
Nathaniel Rich, ‘The Luckiest Woman on Earth’ Harpers August 2011
https://harpers.org/archive/2011/08/the-luckiest-woman-on-earth/
https://harpers.org/blog/2016/01/the-luckiest-woman-on-earth/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/03/magazine/money-issue-iowa-lottery-fraud-mystery.html
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-enlightenment-guide-to-winning-the-lottery/
Rüdiger Campe The Game of Probability 2012
Nafsika Athanassoulis Morality, moral luck, and responsibility 2005
James Wycliffe Headlam ‘Election by Lot at Athens’ Prince Consort Dissertation 1891
Anonymous A Modest Defence of Gaming 1754
Daniel Defoe THE GAMESTER: A Benefit-Ticket For all that are concern’d in the LOTTERIES or the Best Way how to get the 20000 l. Prize Together with Some necessary and reasonable REMARKS on the Schemes of INSURANCE relating the present Lotteries, 1719
Ian Hacking The Taming of Chance 1990
(ed.) Thomas Kavanagh Chance, Culture and the Literary Text 1994
Gershom Scholem The Messianic Idea in Judaism 1971
Mishneh Torah, Repentance 2:4
Richard Wilhelm (tr) The I Ching 1950
6 – My Lucky Underpants
Pierre Rémond de Montmort Essai d’analyse sur les jeux de hasard (Essay on the Analysis of Games of Chance) 1708
David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 1748
HW Brands The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses S Grant in War and Peace 2012
John Brinton Personal Memoirs 1891
Ulysses S Grant Personal Memoirs 1885
Frederick Thomas Elworthy The Evil Eye 1895
Columella On Agriculture c70
Cicero On Divination 44BCE
Pliny the Elder Natural History 77
Plutarch On Superstition c100
HR Jacobus (ed) Studies on Magic and Divination in the Biblical World 2013
Frank W Nicholson ‘The Saliva Superstition in Classical Literature’ Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 1897
Carl Zborowski & Elizabeth Herzog, Life is With People: The Culture of the Shtetl 1952
Max Weber ‘Science as a Vocation’ 1917
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Brian P. Levack, Roy Porter History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe vol 5 1998
Lynn Thorndike A History of Magic and Experimental Science 1923
Michel de Montaigne ‘Of the Art of Conversation’ in Essays 1523
Kathryn Petras & Rose Petras The Stupidest Sports Book of All Time 2017
Rafael Nadal with John Carlin Rafa: My Story 2011
SA Smith & Alan Knight (eds) ‘Of Superstition & Enthusiasm’ in The Religion of Fools Past & Present volume 199 Supplement 3 2009
David Flusfeder ‘Vinyl Road Trip’ Granta 138 February 2017
Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus-Logicus
7 – I Saw Dangeau Play!
George Trevelyan The Early History of Charles James Fox, 1880
Walter Benjamin ‘Short Shadows (II) Selected Writings Vol 2 [1929]
Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d’ Orléans The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine c1722
John Dunkley ‘Illegal Gambling in Eighteenth Century Paris’ Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies September 2008
Marquis d’Argenson Journal et mémoires 1867
Louis de Rouvry, duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs 1828
Philippe de Courcillon, Marquis de Dangeau Memoires c1720
Mme de Sévigné Letters 1726
Jean de la Bruyère Characters 1687
Aulnoy, Madame d’ (Marie-Catherine) Memoirs of the court of France, and city of Paris: containing the intrigues of that court, and the characters of the ministers of state, and other officers; together with the occurrences of the town. 1675
l’Abbé de Choisy Mémoires 1737
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Éloges (de M. le Marquis de Dangeau & Joseph Sauveur) 1720
Edward Gibbon Essai sur l’étude de la littérature 1761
Anthony Hamilton Memoirs of Count Grammont 1714
Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times 1869
Fraser’s Magazine, vol. 8 1833
Enrique García Santo-Tomás ‘Outside Bets: Disciplining Gamblers in Early Modern Spain’, Hispanic Review, Vol. 77, No. 1, Winter 2009
Paul Boiteau d’Ambly Les Cartes à jouer et la cartomancie : ouvrage illustré de 40 bois 1854
VG Kiernan The Duel in European History 1988
Thomas Kavanagh Dice, Cards and Wheels 2005
Damien Crelier ‘Saint-Simon et le «goût italien» ‘homosexualité dans les Mémoires’ 2014
Andrew Steinmetz The Gambling Table and its Voluptuaries, 1870
John Pocock Barbarism & Religion vol 2 1999
Rüdiger Campe The Game of Probability 2012
Jacques Bernouilli The Art of Conjecturing 1713
Edward S Taylor The History of Playing Cards, in Conjuring, Fortune Telling & Card Sharping 1865
Girolamo Cardano Liber de ludo aleae (‘The Book on Games of Chance’) 1663
Walter Benjamin ‘On Some Motifs in Baudelaire’ 1939
Matthew Janda Applications of No-Limit Hold’em 2013
John Kaag ‘Chance and Creativity: The Nature of Contingency in Classical American Philosophy’ 2008
Ella Lyman Cabot Collected Papers
8 – The Slopes of Vesuvius
Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science 1882
Georges Bataille Guilty 1944
Ashley Revell making his bet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGCdBsOIKYA
Al Alvarez The Biggest Game in Town 1983
Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra 1883
Ecce Homo [1888]
‘On the Use and Abuse of History for Life’ in Untimely Meditations 1874
Daybreak 1881
Beyond Good and Evil 1886
Twilight of the Idols 1888
Will to Power 1906 [posth.]
Gilles Deleuze Nietzsche and Philosophy 1962
Sue Prideaux I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche, 2018
Stefan Zweig Holderlin, Kleist and Nietzsche: The Struggle with the Daemon 1925
Robin Small Time and Becoming in Nietzsche’s Thought 2010
RB Onians The Origins of European Thought 1951
Phillip Sipiora ‘The Ancient Concept of Kairos’ in Kairos and Rhetoric 2002
John E Smith ‘Time and Qualitative Time’, Kairos and Rhetoric
Isocrates To Nicocles c370 BCE
Hippocrates Aphorisms c400 BCE
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince 1513
Discourses on Livy 1517
‘Dell’occasione’ 1506
WKC Guthrie The Sophists 1971
Robin Waterfield The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists 2000
Thomas Flanagan ‘The Concept of Fortuna in Machiavelli’ in (ed) Anthony Parel The Political Calculus: Essays on Machiavelli’s Philosophy 1972
Hanna Pitkin Fortune is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli 1984
Harald Weinrich On Borrowed Time 2005
Johann Goethe ‘Alexis and Dora’ 1796
Faust 1790
Friedrich Schiller Don Carlos 1787
Mary Stuart 1800
Wallenstein 1800
Plato Laws c348 BCE
Nolan Dalla & Peter Alson One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ‘The Kid’ Ungar 2005
Mitchell Waldrop Complexity 1993
Arthur Schopenhauer Counsels and Maxims, Section 48 1851
Baltasar Gracián y Morales The Oracle: A Manual of the Art of Prudence 1647
Baltasar Gracián y Morales The Hero 1637
E. Grant Duff ‘Balthasar Gracian’ The Fortnightly Review March 1877
Aubrey Fitzgerald Bell Baltasar Gracián 1921
Jorge Luis Borges ‘Baltasar Gracián’ (1958) in Poesia Completa
Emilio Hidalgo Serna ‘The Philosophy of Ingenium: Concept and Ingenious Method in Baltasar Gracián 1980
Jonathan David Bradbury The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age: A Literature of Fragments 2016
Ian Hacking Taming of Chance 1990
Horace Ars Poetica c19 BCE
Walter Benjamin ‘Notes on a Theory of Gambling’ 1930
9 – The Measurement of Uncertain Things
Joseph Butler The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Course and Constitution of Nature 1736
Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon ‘Essay on Moral Arithmetic’ Paris 1773
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot
Lorraine Daston Classical Probability in the Enlightenment Princeton 1988
Josephus Antiquities of the Jews c94
Immanuel Kant Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View 1798
John Berryman Stephen Crane: A Critical Biography 1950
Sophocles Oedipus the King c429 BCE
Girolamo Cardano Liber de ludo aleae ‘The Book on Games of Chance’ The Book of My Life
Øystein Ore Cardano, The Gambling Scholar Princeton 1953
M.-J, -A, -N. Caritat de Condorcet Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humaine, 1794
Essai sur l’application de l’analyse à la probabilité des décisions rendues à la pluralité des voix, 1785
Pierre-Simon Laplace A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities 1814
Adolphe Quetelet Du système social et des lois qui le régissent 1848
F. Burkhardt et al (eds) The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Cambridge 1985, vol. 8
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2743,” accessed on 30 July 2020, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2743.xml
Baruch Spinoza Ethics 1677
John Venn The Logic of Chance 1866
Friedrich Nietzsche Will to Power
Denis Diderot & Jean d’Alambert Encyclopédie
Charles Sanders Peirce Chance, Love and Logic: Philosophical Essays c1893
Doris Lessing Walking in the Shade 1997
Cheryl Misak Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers 2020
Frank Ramsey ‘Truth and Probability’ 1926
Buffon Discourse on Style 1753
Ludwig Wittgenstein Culture and Value
Rafael Scharf Poland, What Have I To Do With Thee? 1997
10 – By Paths Coincident (canned chance)
Herman Melville marginal note on his copy of Paradise Regained http://melvillesmarginalia.org/
Leonardo da Vinci A Treatise on Painting (posth. publ.) 1632
Ella Lyman Cabot Unpublished Papers (quoted in Kaag)
Georges Perec ‘des règles pour être libre’ Entretiens et conférences, vol. I, p. 208
George Eliot Daniel Deronda 1876
Charles Dickens Little Dorrit 1857
Anthony Trollope The Way We Live Now 1875
KM Newton Modernising George Eliot 2011
Nancy Henry ‘George Eliot and the Colonies’ 2001
George Eliot Felix Holt: The Radical 1866
George Eliot Middlemarch 1871
Immanuel Kant ‘What is Enlightenment?’ 1784
Jessica Richard The Romance of Gambling in the 18th-Century British Novel 2011
Jane Austen Mansfield Park 1814
Henry Fielding Tom Jones 1749
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1719
F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 1925
Herman Melville Moby Dick 1851
Thomas Hardy ‘The Convergence of the Twain’ (first published in the souvenir programme of the Matinee in aid of the Titanic Disaster Fund, Covent Garden, London, on 14 May 1912)
Julio Cortázar Hopscotch (Rayuela) [1963]
James Joyce Finnegans Wake 1939
Maurice Lee Uncertain Chances : Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature 2011
Leland Monk Standard Deviations: Chance and the Modern Novel 1993
Richard Ellman James Joyce 1959
Gordon Bowker ‘Restoring James Joyce’s Book of the Night’ Times Literary Supplement 4 July 2012
Tom F Driver ‘Beckett by the Madeleine’ 1961
Warren F Motte, Jr (ed) OuLiPo: A Primer of Potential Literature 1986
Philip Terry, ed The Penguin Book of OuLiPo 2019
Georges Perec La Disparition Paris 1969
Gilbert Adair A Void 1995
BS Johnson The Unfortunates London 1969 Aren’t You Rather Young to Be Writing Your Memoirs? 1973
Philip Tew ‘(Re)-acknowledging B. S. Johnson’s Radical Realism, or Re-publishing The Unfortunates’, Critical Survey 2001
Frank Kermode ‘Retripotent’ London Review of Books 5.8.2004
Roland Barthes Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography 1993
Ernest Vincent Wright Gadsby 1939
https://archive.org/stream/Gadsby/Gadsby_djvu.txt
David Rokeby Transforming Mirrors 1995
Marcel Duchamp The Complete Works (ed. Arturo Schwarz) London 1969
Marcel Duchamp The Green Box [1934] 1960
Marcel Duchamp ‘Affectueusement, Marcel: Ten Letters from Marcel Duchamp to Suzanne Duchamp and Jean Crotti’ ed. Francis M. Naumann American Art Journal 1982
Katharine Kuh The Artist’s Voice 1962
Dawn Ades et al Marcel Duchamp 1999
Gloria Moure Marcel Duchamp: Works, Writings & Interviews 2009
Robert Lebel On Marcel Duchamp 1967
Dawn Ades ‘Measurement’ in Dali/Duchamp 2018
Man Ray Self Portrait New York 1979
David Joselit ‘Marcel Duchamp’s Monte Carlo Bond Machine’ October Winter 1992
John F Moffit Alchemist of the Avant Garde, SUNY New York 2003
Amelia Jones Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp 1994
Lewis Carroll ‘Poeta Fit, non Nascitur’ 1883
Tristan Tzara ‘Dada Manifesto on Feeble and Bitter Love’ 1920
George Brecht Chance-Imagery 1966
Ken Friedman (ed) The Fluxus Reader 1998 http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/42234
‘Poetry is Vertical’ transition, issue 21, 1932, manifesto signed by Hans Arp, Samuel Beckett, Carl Einstein, Eugene Jolas, Thomas McGreevy, Georges Pelorson, Theo Rutra, James J. Sweeney, Ronald Symond
David Kirsh ‘The importance of chance and interactivity in creativity’ Pragmatics & Cognition 2014
(https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zv112f5)
Richard Kostelanetz Conversing with Cage New York 2003
Kathan Brown John Cage – Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind San Francisco 2000
Richard Rorty Philosophy and Social Hope 1999
Frank Ramsey ‘On a Problem of Formal Logic’ 1928
Cheryl Misak Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
David Sylvester Interviews with Francis Bacon 1987
Friedrich Nietzsche Twilight of the Idols
Johann von Goethe Collected Poems
David Olson Pook ‘Working on Oneself: Wittgenstein’s Architecture, Ethics & Aesthetics’ symptlokē Winter 1994
11 – The Rice of Chance
Charles Sanders Peirce ‘Reply to the Necessitarians’, The Monist 1893
Robin Waterfield (tr) The First Philosophers OUP 2000 [c420 BCE]
Honoré de Balzac The Wild Ass’s Skin 1831
The Mahabharata c4th century BCE?
Montaigne Essays 1580
Etienne La Boétie Sonnets c 1560
Epicurus ‘Letter to Menoecus’ c310 BCE
Inwood & Gerson (eds) The Epicurus Reader 1994
Lucretius On the Nature of Things c60 BCE
Lucretius (tr Ronald Melville) On the Nature of the Universe 1995
Gillespie & Hardie (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius 2010
David J Furley Two Studies in the Greek Atomists 1967
Aristotle Physics c340 BCE
Stephen Greenblatt The Swerve 2011
Peter Fenves ‘Marx’s Doctoral Thesis on Two Greek Atomists and the Post-Kantian Interpretations’ Journal of the History of Ideas 1986
Kurt Latte quoted in John Ferguson The Religions of the Roman Empire 1970
Landsman & Wolde (eds) The Challenge of Chance 2016
Gerd Gigerenzer (ed) The Empire of Chance 1990
Tacitus Germania c 98
FN David Games, Gods and Gambling 1962
John Ashton The History of Gambling in England 1898
Ernst Cassirer The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms 1923
Mrs John King van Rensselaer The Devil’s Picture Book 1887
Edward Taylor The History of Playing Cards 1865
Thomas Kavanagh ‘Casanova’s Autobiography of Chance’ Michigan Romance Studies 1994
Casanova Story of My Life vol. 2
Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching c400 BCE
Ludwig Wittgenstein Notebooks 1914-1916 1979
Gerda Reith The Age of Chance 1999
David Hume A Treatise on Human Nature 1739
Werner Heisenberg Physics and Beyond 1971
Denis Lejeune The Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art 1994
12 – Group Luck
Sallustius On the Gods and the World c363
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace 1867
Lewis Michell The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil Rhodes 1910
Nicholas Rescher Luck 1995
Émile Durkheim Suicide: A Study in Sociology 1897
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/us/politics/trump-biden-masks-masculinity.html
Nachum Rabinovitch ‘The One and the Many: Early Stochastic Reasoning in Philosophy’ Annals of Science 1977
Richard Holmes Footsteps 1985
Olivia Laing The Trip to Echo Spring 2013
Nafsika Athanassoulis Morality, Moral luck, and Responsibility 2005
Bernard Williams Moral Luck 1981
Martha Nussbaum The Fragility of Goodness 1986
Daniel Statman (ed) Moral Luck 1993
14 – Friday 13th in Las Vegas
Blaise Pascal ‘Le Pari’ in Pensées 1670
Jon Bradshaw Fast Company 1975
Richard Wiseman ‘The Luck Factor’, Skeptical Inquirer May-June 2003
Marc Cooper The Last Honest Place in America 2004
Las Vegas Review-Journal July 2012
Honoré de Balzac The Wild Ass’s Skin 1831
Al Alvarez The Biggest Game in Town 1983
Arturo Schwarz The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp 1969
Quotes from the Old Testament are generally from the Robert Alter translation; from the New I’ve used either the Vulgate or King James editions.
David Flusfeder 