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paganism, 121–22
paleontology, 89, 92, 109
Pandora’s box, 142, 246, 304
Paris Commune, 226
participation, 34, 44, 217, 251; civic, 65; intentional, 54; social, 60
particularity, 38–39, 46, 75, 79, 86, 210, 242, 274
πάσχειν, 28
peace, 9, 75–77, 151
Peisistratus, 45
perception, 63, 119, 208
perpetual peace, 1, 10, 75–77, 85, 226–27, 230, 256, 258, 261, 263, 265, 279, 305. See also Kant, Immanuel
Peru, 3
Peterson, Erik, 121
pharmacology, 177
pharmacology of sovereignty, 177
phenomenon, 3, 6, 27, 33–35, 50, 60, 90–92, 100, 113–14, 156, 234–35, 238, 276, 283; of exosomatization, 92; immunological, 239; of planetarization, 6; planetary, 5, 97; of reflection, 90; social, 155; technological, 3, 8, 169, 230
philosophy; elementary, 170, 245; mechanist, 136, 144; modern, 57, 199; of nature, 29, 72, 112; speculative, 42–43; of technology, 31, 57, 68, 92, 169, 278; of world history, 35
planet, 1, 4, 6, 9–10, 18–19, 41, 43, 74, 76, 78, 85–87, 101, 110, 178–80, 223–24, 226, 241
planetarization, 1, 5–6, 9, 86, 111, 174, 176, 178, 224, 243, 265
planetary condition, 3, 152, 166, 168, 181, 184, 220–21, 226
planetary freedom, 27, 43–44, 54, 59, 74, 86, 108, 119
planetary life form, 112, 284
planetary politics, 14, 17, 20, 83, 87, 123, 165, 170, 218, 222, 254–55
planetary scale, 81, 108
planetary supermechanism, 114
planetary thinking, 1–2, 5–6, 9–20, 23–57, 80, 83, 88, 93, 97, 111, 117, 154, 180, 197, 221, 227, 232, 264–65, 303; addressing, 6, 230
Plato, 2, 28, 44–46, 120, 155, 158, 214, 273; Phaedrus, 28; Republic, 44–45, 155, 273
Platonic form, 31
pluralism, 127, 164, 173–74, 177–78, 180–81, 183, 189, 221, 292
political economy, 18, 234, 246, 264
political epistemology, x, 9, 11–13, 15, 18, 23–24, 26, 33, 55, 59, 63, 73, 114, 117–18, 120, 123–24, 128, 130, 147, 192, 229–31, 246, 258, 266
political forms, 1, 3, 10, 12, 14, 20, 43, 46–47, 49, 57, 62–63, 74, 114, 117, 138, 167, 189, 215, 218, 229, 231, 237, 263
political life, 156, 196, 286
political philosophy, 2, 12–13, 18, 25, 43, 82–83, 119, 130, 132–33, 230, 285
political state, 17–19, 23, 42, 48, 50, 55, 57, 59, 64–65, 67–68, 72, 74, 83–86, 95, 154, 169, 179, 183, 200, 203, 221, 263, 268
political vital force, 181, 200
political vitalism, 15–17, 21, 118, 141, 147, 149, 163, 180, 192, 229, 231
postcolonialism, 6
postmodern, 266
Popper, Karl, 103
power, 4, 9, 11, 15–16, 55, 58, 63, 66–67, 69, 72–74, 93, 140, 144–45, 147–48, 153–56, 161, 165–66, 171, 181, 186–87, 189, 201, 204, 208, 220, 230, 234, 240, 243–45, 247, 259–60, 286, 291–92, 300–302; political, 169, 187; soft, 186
practical reason; See under reason
problem; epistemological, 78, 227; immunological, 244–45
process of externalization, 31
Prometheus, 142, 246
Prussian state, 39, 63, 118
Przyluski, Jean, 212
Putin, Vladimir, 146, 291

Quesnay, François, 89
qi, 175, 241
Qianlong, 42

Rasch, William, 136–37, 156, 289, 293–95
Ratzel, Friedrich, 85
reason, 12–13, 24–27, 32, 35, 38–39, 41, 43, 45, 47–48, 50, 52, 54, 57, 61, 63, 66–67, 70–71, 74, 76–78, 80–86, 134, 157–58, 162, 215–16, 218, 232–34, 238–39, 242, 247, 255–58, 261–64, 266, 268, 293, 305–6; expansion of, 39, 94, 238, 264; practical, 50, 238; speculative, 24, 63; theoretical, 50, 238; See also use of reason
reciprocity, 1, 4, 55, 64, 69, 72, 74, 76, 227
recognition, mutual, 33, 64, 79, 165, 169
recollection, 30, 32, 61, 178; See also internalization
recursivity, 18–19, 28, 36–37, 51–52, 55, 57, 73–74, 61, 91, 107, 163, 178, 189, 195, 197, 198, 206, 258, 301
reflective judgment, 51, 138, 258, 289
Reich, 148, 180–82, 184, 292, 298
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 90, 281
Ritter, Carl, 68,
Ritter, Joachim, 45, 56, 273–75, 285; Metaphysik und Politik, 273–75, 285
Romantics, 25, 93, 117, 122, 125, 136, 138–40, 240–41, 274
Roosevelt, Theodore, 172
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 8, 49, 67, 100, 125, 131–32, 136, 154–55, 162, 271, 274, 277, 286–89, 293; Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Mankind, 8, 131–32, 136, 287–89; “Discours sur l’économie politique,” 67; and Hobbes, 131; and Kant, 274; Œuvres complètes, 277; The Social Contract and the First and Second Discourses, 286–89
Rousseauist solution, 256
Rudolph, Moritz, 41

Sagan, Dorion, 284
Saint Simon, Henri de, 176
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, 255
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 292; “Existentialism Is a Humanism,” 292
Schein, 19, 35
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 25, 68, 93, 268, 301
Schiller, Friedrich, 25
Schlegels, 24, 241
Schmitt, Carl, 7, 13–21, 41, 49, 77, 117–18, 120–28, 130, 135–54, 156, 159–64, 166–84, 189, 191, 196, 216, 218, 221–22, 229, 231, 245, 256, 263, 266–68, 272, 279–80, 285–99, 304; “Age of Neutralization and Depoliticizations,” 16, 140, 144, 290–91, 297; The Concept of the Political, 41, 137, 148, 150, 153, 182, 272, 279, 289–92, 297; Constitutional Theory, 160, 294; on decisionism, 118, 147; Der Begriff des Politischen, 291; Dialogues on Power and Space, 144, 291; Die drei Arten rechtswissenschaftlichen Denkens, 267; “Die Einheit der Welt,” 174; Ex Captivitate Salus, 191, 287, 295; Glossarium, 289–90, 294–95; Land and Sea, 179; Law and Judgment, 136; The Leviathan in State Theory of Thomas Hobbes, 117–18, 124, 267, 286–87, 289, 291; Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol, 127; Moralische Energie, 183, 299; “The New Nomos of the Earth,” 17, 173, 178, 296; The Nomos of the Earth, 7, 167, 179, 266–67, 296–97; Political Romanticism, 125, 286, 297; Political Theology, 15, 19, 118, 120–25, 147, 161–63, 246, 267, 285–86, 289, 291, 293–94; Political Theology II, 122, 285–86; Politische Theologie, 285; Positionen und Begriffen, 298; “Reich, Staat, Bund,” 148; Roman Catholicism and Political Form, 138, 290; Staat, Bewegung, Volk, 148; Staat, Großraum, Nomos, 267–68, 297–99; on the state of exception, 15, 121, 148, 150, 152–53, 162–63, 186–87, 200, 243–44; Theory of the Partisan, 149, 165, 292–93; “The Unity of the World,” 178; on vitalism, 16, 145, 153–54; “Völkerrechtliche Großraumordnung,” 296–99; “Wisdom of the Cell,” 164
Schrödinger, Erwin, 92; What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, 92
Schumpeter, Joseph, 93
science and technology, 5, 7, 122, 171
sea power, 7, 16–17, 49, 144, 151–52, 168–73, 175, 179–80, 183–84, 222, 231, 296–98; See also land, sea, and air power
Searle, John; Chinese Room experiment, 74
Second World War, 34, 118, 164, 178–80, 184, 196, 280, 303
secularization of theological concepts, 121–23, 230
self-consciousness, 28, 30–33, 35–36, 38–39, 42–43, 52, 55, 61, 63, 65, 68, 70, 72–73, 82, 90, 92, 300; becoming, 35, 37, 41
Shannon, Claude, 102
Shiva, Vandana, 225
Simondon, Gilbert, 13, 106, 108, 124, 142, 179, 192, 202–5, 208, 232, 234–37, 246, 249–50, 254, 268, 283, 286, 295, 301, 303–5; Cybernétique et philosophie, 301; “Epistemology of Cybernetics,” 106; On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, 142, 208, 249, 286, 301, 303–5; Sur la Philosophie, 283
Skinner, Quentin, 159, 267, 294
Skordas, Achilles, 304
Smith, Adam, 106, 215, 266, 283
smooth planes, 7, 173, 176
Snowdon, Edward, 187
social contract, 49, 135, 286–89, 293
social network, 252, 305
Socrates, 44, 155
Sohn-Rethel, Alfred, 235, 303–4; “Das Ideal des Kaputten. Über neapolitanische Technik,” 235
Solon, 45
soul, 15, 28, 34, 71, 90–91, 106–7, 109–10, 118, 127, 135–36, 141, 144–46, 148, 156, 191, 193–94, 203, 208, 221, 237, 250, 269, 288
sovereign, 14–16, 72, 103, 127, 135–36, 141, 143, 145–49, 152–59, 161–63, 166, 177, 180, 186–87, 192, 200, 226, 242, 287, 293–94
sovereign power, 136, 147, 187–88, 243, 289
sovereign states, 19, 82–83, 165, 168–69, 172, 178, 180, 182, 294
sovereignty, 1, 15–19, 21, 49, 62, 73–74, 79, 117, 120, 126–27, 135, 144, 148, 153–56, 159, 161–63, 165–69, 176–78, 180, 186–87, 189, 242–43, 247, 254, 260, 284, 293–94; planetary, 17; world, 82–83
Soviet Union, 5, 167, 172, 175, 185, 305
spatial revolutions, 3, 16–17, 19, 117, 154, 170, 179–80, 245
Spemann-Mangold Experiment, 88
Spengler, Oswald, 41
Spinoza, Benedict de, 18, 29, 52, 135, 270–71, 275
spirit, 23, 25, 27, 29–33, 35–43, 51, 53, 55–57, 59–61, 63–64, 66, 70–72, 75, 77–78, 80–81, 87, 89, 91–92, 96–97, 99, 107, 109, 125–26, 139–42, 148–49, 177–78, 195, 201, 203–4, 233–34, 269–72, 276–78, 281–82, 285; See also Geist
Sputnik, 3–4, 180, 265
Stalin, Joseph, 40, 81, 271
state, 1–2, 9, 11–15, 17–21, 24–26, 34–35, 41–42, 46–47, 49, 54–88, 103, 107–8, 117–19, 121–27, 129–30, 132, 135–37, 141, 143, 145–52, 159, 165, 168–69, 177–83, 185–89, 192–93, 195, 200–201, 215–18, 220–21, 229–32, 243–45, 252, 256–60, 262, 268–69, 274–78, 286–88, 291–95, 302; administration, 141, 189, 192, 197–98, 200; individual, 75–77, 79, 178, 181; machine, 12, 24, 69; mechanical, 69, 136, 141, 145, 191; sovereignty, 82, 244, 247, world, 19–20, 258–59, 268
state of nature, 131–33, 138–39, 154, 261, 288–89
Stengers, Isabelle, 19, 267
Stiegler, Bernard, 2, 8, 158, 186, 192–93, 203, 214, 264, 266, 268, 294–95, 299, 304; Technics and Time 1: The Fault of Epimetheus, 8, 266, 304
Strauss, Leo, 25, 133, 135, 143, 145, 155, 267, 269, 274–75, 288–89, 291, 293; Natural Right and History, 155, 288, 293; “Note on the Concept of the Political,” 135; On Hegel, 274, 291; Political Philosophy of Hobbes, 288, 291
Suess, Eduard, 108
Suganami, Hidemi, 294
syllogisms, 27, 29, 281
synchronization, 6–8, 19, 111, 243, 266
systematic unity of reason, 257, 306

Tang, Audrey, 15
Taubes, Jacob, 123, 286
Taylor, Charles, 274–75, 300–301
technē, 44, 246, 304
technical element, 205
technical ensemble, 205
technical fact, 209–12
technical knowledge, 235, 304
technical individuals, 204–5
technical objects, 36, 62, 109, 142, 200, 204, 208, 234–38, 247, 249–51, 254, 286, 301, 303–5
technical tendency, 210–13; See also tendency
technics, 7–8, 45, 208, 225, 236, 266, 304
technodiversity, 20–21, 212, 215, 220, 223–27, 229–30, 234, 238, 240–42, 247, 252–56, 264
technological acceleration, 20, 112–13, 178, 180, 194–95, 222, 227
technological advancement, 16, 60, 111, 151, 169, 173–74, 231
technological apocalypses, 225, 242, 249
technological development, 2, 112, 145, 210, 223, 242, 254
technological determinism, 20, 251
technological epoch, 1, 5–6, 9, 46, 113, 124, 146, 189, 196, 199, 205, 209, 221, 226, 243–43, 246, 249, 300
technological innovations, 200, 244, 306
technological progress, 3, 117, 180, 197, 225
technological systems, 199–203, 205
technological thinking, 234, 236
technology, 2–3, 5–11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 68–69, 78–79, 87, 92, 94, 106–7, 109–10, 115, 141–42, 144–47, 151, 153–54, 166–67, 169, 171, 174–77, 179–80, 182–83, 189, 192, 194–97, 211–15, 218–19, 221–26, 234, 236–38, 240–42, 244–46, 248–51, 254–55, 260–64, 278, 281, 286; democratization of, 218–19, 221; military, 213, 226; planetary, 1; and politics, 3, 6, 115
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 14, 88, 93, 108–15, 176, 197, 225, 255, 283–84; The Future of Man, 283; Human Phenomenon, 110, 283–84; omega point, 14, 110, 114, 225
tendency, 97, 101–3, 130, 132, 135–36, 161, 176, 194, 200, 207–20, 246–47, 255, 262; See also technical tendency
terraforming, 1, 4
thermodynamic ideology, 5, 9, 87, 186, 204, 266
Thiel, Peter, 34, 151, 185, 293, 299
tianxia, 82–83, 280
time, 1, 3, 6–8, 10, 12–13, 15, 28–33, 35–36, 38, 40–41, 50–53, 55, 59–60, 65–66, 72–73, 86–87, 94, 96, 99–101,105, 109, 113, 115, 123–24, 128, 130, 135–36, 140–43, 145, 170, 174, 176–81, 191–95, 202, 204–5, 231–34, 242, 244–46, 251–52, 301–4
Tönnies, Ferdinand, 136
Toynbee, Arnold, 175, 213, 268, 281, 297
Tractatus Politico-Technologicus, 2–3, 16, 18, 20, 230, 255
transhumanists, 5, 110, 115, 176, 255
travail, 60–61, 271
Trump, Donald, 76, 186
Turing, Alan, 199

unhappy consciousness, 33–35, 80
United Nations, 74, 78, 259–60, 265
United States, 13, 26, 84, 165, 167, 172–73, 175, 184, 186–87, 262, 297–98, 304–5
unity, 11, 27, 29, 34–35, 37, 48–49, 56, 60, 66–67, 82, 84, 86, 135, 156, 168, 172, 174, 176–78, 180, 208, 236–38, 241, 256–58, 268–70, 276; magic, 208, 236, 237
universal, the, 27, 46, 63, 65–67, 90, 182, 213, 238–40, 242, 258, 275, 289; and freedom, 54; concrete, 32, 35, 38, 65, 80, 174, 238
universalism, 17, 172, 173, 177, 192
universalization, 17, 171, 215, 242, 263
use of reason, 257–58, 305; apodictic, 258; hypothetic, 258; theoretical-speculative, 257; practical-moral, 257

Van Gogh, Vincent, 221
Varela, Francisco, 198–99, 201, 245, 300; “Steps to a Cybernetics of Autonomy,” 198
Vernadsky, Vladimir, 108, 225, 283; The Biosphere, 283
Vernünftig, 35, 53, 85, 87, 238, 255, 271
Vieweg, Klaus, 74, 279
vitalism, 13, 20, 105–6, 140, 148–49, 161, 192, 202, 227, 230–31, 290
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 223
Volksgeist, 40, 87
Voltaire, 239
von Gierke, Otti, 136
von Neumann, John, 198–99, 253

Wahl, Jean, 34–35, 271; Le malheur de la conscience, 34–35, 271
war, 20–21, 74, 77, 80–81, 85, 111, 119, 130–33, 141, 147, 150–51, 156, 164, 167, 169, 173, 178, 183, 191–227, 230–31, 256, 261–62, 280, 284, 291, 293, 295–96, 300; civil, 127, 134, 143, 153, 183
Watt, James, 106
Weber, Max, 142, 155
Weltgeist, 23, 27, 32, 40–43, 238
Western philosophy, 41, 107, 148, 255
Western technology, 9, 80, 175, 196
Whitehead, Alfred North, 88, 93, 96, 97, 142
Wiener, Norbert, 13, 104, 106, 110, 114, 198–99, 201–2, 282–83, 301; Cybernetics, 104; God and Golem, 301; Human Use of Human Beings, 282; “Newtonian and Bergsonian Time.,” 104; “Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation,” 201, 301
Wirklichkeit, 56, 271
work, 61, 68–69, 72
world civilization, 5, 36, 38
world history, 8, 10–11, 23, 25, 32, 35, 37–40, 43, 77, 80, 174, 191, 242, 258–59, 266, 268, 273–74, 276, 292, 305
world market, 9, 11, 42, 201
world powers, 167, 197, 256
world republic, 10, 19, 258–59, 303
world revolutions, 19, 81
world spirit, 14, 20, 23–56, 76–80, 82, 174, 177, 201, 268
World War I. See First World War
World War II. See Second World War

Xi Jinping, 123

Zhao Tingyang, 20, 82, 280; A Possible World of All-Under-Heaven System, 280
Žižek, Slavoj, 275, 284; Hegel in a Wired Brain, 275
zoe; and bio, 150

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