The inability to sleep has been one of the fundamental experiences since the onset of (industrial) modernity and few diagnoses of the times are as self-evident as that we live in an age of sleeplessness. At first glance, the complete indifference that philosophy has shown towards this phenomenon is therefore astonishing. The project “Insomnias”, on…

Einleitung In einer wenig bekannten Schrift Immanuel Kants „Von der Macht des Gemüts, durch den bloßen Vorsatz seiner krankhaften Gefühle Meister zu sein“ berichtet Immanuel Kant von den Schrecken, die ihm seine eingesunkene und enge Brust bei Nacht bescherte; von den selbstquälerischen Gedanken seines kommenden Endes, mit denen ihn die „dichtende Einbildungskraft“ wie mit einem…

In a seemingly prophetic remark by Engels in 1887, he describes his present as marked by a “general exhaustion” in which he recapitulates the catastrophic situation of the Thirty Years’ War as well as the impoverishment of the masses and foresees the autophagic agony of the First World War. At the same time, he projects…

The study of inorganic life is actually concerned with the peculiar in/existence of the inorganic. As a conceptual horizon for this discussion, the course of the argument will follow the largely unchallenged presupposition of zonta-centrism, by which is understood here the assumption that living things (hōs zōnta) are different in kind from non-living things, insofar…

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