Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Translator’s Note
1 For Nonconformism
1.1 Transgression, Autobiography, Philosophy
1.2 Forms of Life
1.3 Psyche and History
1.4 Biopower and the Hidden Faculties of Existence (Eroticism, Friendship, Art)
2 The Era of State Capitalism: Morphology and Genesis Starting from Friedrich Pollock
2.1 Friedrich Pollock’s Ideal Type
2.2 Between Domination and Welfare
3 Expatriation, Disorientation, Islands
3.1 Leaving Germany (Eichmann Trial, Israel and the Atlantic Pact)
3.2 Free from the Coercion of the Reality Principle (Switzerland)
3.3 Beyond Instrumental Architecture (the Houses in Montagnola)
4 Automation and the Eclipse of Democracy
4.1 Era of Automation and Crisis: Pollock’s Prognosis
4.2 Is Critical Theory Antiquated?
5 Critical Theory and Longing for the Other
5.1 The Absent Alterity
5.2 Critique of Instrumental Reason and Religion
5.3 Critical Judaism (beyond Identity, beyond Sovereignty, beyond Zionism)
Appendix: Figures
Bibliography
Index
