Contents
Translator’s Preface
The Obsolescence of the Human, Volume 1
Preface to the Fifth German Edition
Introduction
1. On Promethean Shame
2. The World as Phantom and Matrix: Philosophical Reflections on Radio and Television
I. The Home-Delivered World
II. The Phantom
III. The Notification
IV. The Matrix
V. A Leap into General Perspectives
3. Being without Time: On Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
4. On the Bomb and the Roots of Our Apocalypse Blindness
I. Opening Shock Observations
II. What the Bomb Is Not
III. The Human Is Smaller Than Itself
IV. Development of Moral Imagination and the Plasticity of Feeling
V. The Historical Roots of Apocalypse Blindness
VI. Annihilation and Nihilism
VII. Concluding Remarks
VIII. Appendices
Editors’ Postscript. Scenes of Obsolescence: GÜnther Anders and the Method of Occasional Philosophy
Translator’s Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
