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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

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