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About this book
Sea fortune has always been an issue of good faith and good navigation. While in antiquity, fortuna gubernatrix was praised for shielding the seaborne trade, in the Renaissance fortuna symbolized the conquest of chance and danger. Under such auspices, while relying on risk technologies modern seafaring has never lost its adventurous dimension. Understanding their origin remains a challenge for the history of science and the history of literature.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Departure Topoi of Wiliness: Erring and Returning in the Odyssey
- ChapterĀ 1 Rites of Passage: Cults and Religions of Fortunate Seafaring
- ChapterĀ 2 In Search of Fortune: The Birth of Insurance from Maritime Danger
- ChapterĀ 3 Disorientation: Poetic Experiments with Hydrography
- ChapterĀ 4 The Ship of State: Cultural Techniques of Early Modern āSea Appropriationā
- ChapterĀ 5 The Figure of the Captain: Doctrine of Maritime State of Emergency
- ChapterĀ 6 The Ethos of Wreckage: Perils of Modernized Seafaring
- ChapterĀ 7 Shipwreck and Seasickness on Land: Terrestrial Loss of Safety
- ChapterĀ 8 Potential Peril: Geopolitical Loss of Difference
- ChapterĀ 9 The Takeoff of Cybernetics: Medial Recursions of the Odyssey
- Conclusion Memory of the Sea: The Archeology of Maritime Culture
- Cited Literature
- List of Figures
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects