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Contents

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1 The Anthropocene – A Stage in the Process on the Margins of the Earth’s History?

1.1 Weightless Humanity
1.2 Doctrines of Ages of the World
1.3 Modern Virtuous Circles
1.4 Crisis of Severe Externalization
1.5 Ignorance Management
1.6 “We are on a mission”
1.7 “The Power of the Body”
1.8 Politics for the Earth
Notes

2 From the Domestication of the Human Being to the Civilizing of Cultures: Answering the Question of Whether Humanity is Capable of Taming Itself

2.1 Pastoral Metaphysics: The Discovery of the Problem ofxs Domestication
2.2 Beyond Taming: From Pedagogy to the Discovery of Neoteny and Back Again
2.3 Naive Pacifism as the Refusal of Cooperation in Cultural Limit Situations
2.4 Maximal Stress Cooperation in Cultural Groups
2.5 The Culture of Taming the Wild Animal
2.6 The Disarming of the Population Bomb
Notes

3 The Ocean Experiment: From Nautical Globalization to a General Ecology

3.1 Globalization as a Maritime Experiment
3.2 The Experimental Spirit and the Externalization of Side Effects
3.3 Limits of Externalization, or a New Labor of the Argonauts
Notes

4 The Synchronized World: Philosophical Aspects of Globalization

5 What Happened in the 20th Century?: Toward a Critique of Extremist Reason

5.1 The Apocalypse of the Real: Toward a Logic of Extremism
5.2 Revaluation of all Values: The Principle of Abundance
5.3 Beyond Expensive and Free: In Favor of a New Alliance with the Worker of Nature
Notes

6 The Thinker in the Haunted Castle: On Derrida’s Interpretation of Dreams

Notes

7 Deep Observation: Toward a Philosophy of the Space Station

Notes

8 The Persistent Renaissance: The Italian Novella and News of Modernity

Notes

9 Heidegger’s Politics: Postponing the End of History

9.1 Boredom and the Authentic Collective
9.2 Dostoyevsky, Heidegger, and Kojève: Projecting the End of History
9.3 Affirmation of Danger: Back to History!
Notes

10 Odysseus the Sophist: On the Birth of Philosophy from the Spirit of Travel Stress

10.1 Polytropos – The Man of Twists and Turns
10.2 Polymētis – Someone Who is Never at a Loss
10.3 Polytlas Dios Odysseus – Odysseus, a Man Who Endured Much
10.4 Polymēchanos – The Versatile Teacher of How Not to Be Helpless
Notes

11 Almost Sacred Text: Essay on the Constitution

11.1 The Moment of the Constitution
11.2 The Generation of the Democratic Sublime
Notes

12 The Other Logos, or the Reason of Cunning: On the Intellectual History of the Indirect

12.1 The Normalization of the Logos
12.2 Divine Cunning, Philosophical Cunning
12.3 The Outwitting of Human Reason
12.4 Outwitting for the Sake of the Outwitted
12.5 Hegel: The Cunning of Reason
12.6 Schopenhauer: Cunning of the Will
12.7 Nature Outwitted: Mechanical Engineering
12.8 Our Outwitted Fellow Man
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