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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: For a Planetary Thinking
    1. §1. On the Planetary Condition
    2. §2. Planetary Thinking as Political Epistemologies
    3. §3. Search for a Planetary Politics beyond the Nation-State
    4. §4. Toward a Tractatus Politico-Technologicus of the Planetary
  9. 1. World Spirit as Planetary Thinking
    1. §5. Individuation of the Spirit as Historical Process
    2. §6. World Spirit as Planetary Thinking and the Place of Reason in History
    3. §7. Freedom as the Drive of the Transitions of Political Forms
    4. §8. Recursivity of Reason and Freedom in the Modern State
  10. 2. The Organism of the State and Its Limit
    1. §9. Spirit and the Organic Becoming of the Externalized
    2. §10. Organism of the State versus Organism of the Animal
    3. §11. The Impasse from the State to Planetary Freedom
  11. 3. From Noetic Reflection to Planetary Reflection
    1. §12. Noetic Reflection: Consciousness and Life
    2. §13. Bioeconomical Reflection: Georgescu-Roegen Reads Hegel
    3. §14. Cybernetic Reflection: Toward the Consciousness of Machines
    4. §15. Noospheric Reflection: In Search of a Planetary Freedom?
  12. 4. Mechanism, Organism, or Decisionism
    1. §16. From Political Theology to Political Epistemology
    2. §17. Machine and Organism in The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
    3. §18. Political Epistemology in Hobbes’s Leviathan
    4. §19. Catholicism and the Logic of Complexio Oppositorum
    5. §20. The Death of Hegel and the Triumph of Political Vitalism
  13. 5. Nomos of the Digital Earth
    1. §21. First Deconstruction on the Contingency of Sovereignty
    2. §22. Second Deconstruction on the Contingency of Friend and Enemy
    3. §23. Sovereignty and the Elementary Philosophy of Space
    4. §24. Großräume as Post-Static Political Form and the Problem of Pluralism
    5. §25. Giving Colonialism, New Großräume, and Digital Sovereignty
  14. 6. An Organology of Wars
    1. §26. The Disproportion of Organs and the Hubris of Wars
    2. §27. From a Cybernetics of Freedom to an Organology of Differences
    3. §28. The Conflict of Tendencies and the Recurrence of Mysticism
    4. §29. The Dynamics of the Technical Tendency and Technical Fact
    5. §30. On the Organological Relation between Technology and Democracy
    6. §31. Biodiversity, Noodiversity, and Technodiversity
  15. 7. Toward an Epistemological Diplomacy
    1. §32. Acceleration, Automation, and the Prosthetic Future
    2. §33. Universality Seen from the Perspective of Technodiversity
    3. §34. Sovereignty Seen from the Perspective of Technodiversity
    4. §35. Technodiversity Analyzed via an Anatomy of Technical Objects
    5. §36. Technodiversity as Epistemological Diplomacy
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Author Biography

Index — Continued (2 of 2)

  • 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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