books.google.de - The seven essays collected in this book address the history of modern ideas and contemporary cultural issues. The first is the discourse of Marquard's acceptance of the Sigmund Freud prize; the second addresses the equivalence of modernity and the theodicee; the third confronts the idea of "meaning";...https://books.google.de/books/about/In_Defense_of_the_Accidental.html?hl=de&id=YDpK0peVZVYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIn Defense of the Accidental