Index

Contents

Preface / ix
Introduction: For a Planetary Thinking / 1
	§ 1. On the Planetary Condition / 3
	§ 2. Planetary Thinking as Political Epistemologies / 9
	§ 3. Search for a Planetary Politics beyond the Nation-State / 14
	§ 4. Toward a Tractatus Politico-Technologicus of the Planetary 18

1. World Spirit as Planetary Thinking / 23
	§ 5. Individuation of the Spirit as Historical Process / 27
	§ 6. World Spirit as Planetary Thinking and the Place of Reason in History / 32
	§ 7. Freedom as the Drive of the Transitions of Political Forms 43
	§ 8. Recursivity of Reason and Freedom in the Modern State / 50

2. The Organism of the State and Its Limit / 57
	§ 9. Spirit and the Organic Becoming of the Externalized / 59
	§ 10. Organism of the State versus Organism of the Animal / 63
	§ 11. The Impasse from the State to Planetary Freedom / 74

3. From Noetic Reflection to Planetary Reflection / 85
	§ 12. Noetic Reflection: Consciousness and Life / 88
	§ 13. Bioeconomical Reflection: Georgescu-Roegen Reads Hegel / 93
	§ 14. Cybernetic Reflection: Toward the Consciousness of Machines / 101
	§ 15. Noospheric Reflection: In Search of a Planetary Freedom? / 108

4. Mechanism, Organism, or Decisionism / 117
	§ 16. From Political Theology to Political Epistemology / 118 
	§ 17. Machine and Organism in The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes / 124
	§ 18. Political Epistemology in Hobbes’s Leviathan / 128
	§ 19. Catholicism and the Logic of Complexio Oppositorum / 136
	§ 20. The Death of Hegel and the Triumph of Political Vitalism / 147

5. Nomos of the Digital Earth / 153
	§21. First Deconstruction on the Contingency of Sovereignty / 154
	§22. Second Deconstruction on the Contingency of Friend and Enemy / 161
	§23. Sovereignty and the Elementary Philosophy of Space / 167
	§24. Großräume as Post-Static Political Form and the Problem of Pluralism / 174
	§25. Giving Colonialism, New Großräume and Digital Sovereignty / 182

6. An Organology of Wars / 191
	§26. The Disproportion of Organs and the Hubris of Wars / 193
	§27. From a Cybernetics of Freedom to an Organology of Differences / 197
	§28. The Conflict of Tendencies and the Recurrence of Mysticism / 203
	§29. The Dynamics of the Technical Tendency and Technical Fact / 209
	§30. On the Organological Relation between Technology and Democracy / 215
	§31. Biodiversity, Noodiversity, and Technodiversity / 220

7. Toward an Epistemological Diplomacy / 229
	§32. Acceleration, Automation, and the Prosthetic Future / 230 
	§33. Universality Seen from the Perspective of Technodiversity / 234
	§34. Sovereignty Seen from the Perspective of Technodiversity / 242
	§35. Technodiversity Analyzed via an Anatomy of Technical Objects / 247
	§36. Technodiversity as Epistemological Diplomacy / 255

Notes / 265
Bibliography / 307
Index / 323


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