Die produktive Fragmentierung
1989-heute – Nach dem Ende der Geschichte?
📕 E-BookAfter the End of History? — Postmodernism Realizes Itself
The negative developments are not merely counter-movements to postmodernism, but its unfolding — because they potentiate the internal contradictions of postmodernism without understanding them.
The Central Insight
The aporias of postmodernism (from Volume 2) are not solved, but realize themselves:
- Theoretically → in philosophy as aporias
- Practically → in society as crises
- Technologically → in AI/social media as structures
Part I: Postmodernism Realizes Itself (1990s-2000s)
Chapter 1: The Postmodern Victory and Its Crisis — Sokal Hoax, Rorty’s Warning, Fukuyama
Chapter 2: Identity Politics as Legitimation Crisis — The Fragmentation of the Universal
Chapter 3: Post-Truth as Meaning Crisis — From Derrida to “Alternative Facts”
Chapter 4: Algorithmic Control as Order Crisis — The Rhizome Becomes Surveillance
Chapter 5: Hyperreality as Reality Crisis — Baudrillard’s Dystopia Becomes Everyday
Part II: The New Realisms (2000s-2010s)
Chapter 6: Speculative Realism — Meillassoux, Harman, Brassier, Gabriel
Chapter 7: Karen Barad — Agential Realism (Feminism + Physics)
Chapter 8: New Materialism — Bennett, Latour, Haraway against Anthropocentrism
Part III: The Hegel Renaissance (1990s-2020s)
Chapter 9: The Pittsburgh School — Brandom, McDowell, Pippin (analytical pragmatism)
Chapter 10: Frankfurt School 4.0 — Honneth, Fraser, Jaeggi (critical theory after Habermas)
Chapter 11: The Slovenian School — Žižek, Dolar, Zupančič (Hegel + Lacan + Marx)
Further Planned Topics
- Digitalization and AI
- Ecological Crisis and Natural Philosophy
- Return of Authoritarianism
- Decolonization of Philosophy
- What does “absolute knowledge” mean today?
Status: In progress (~1/3 written) — Chapters 1-11 complete, further chapters planned. Subject to expansions and insertions.
Bibliography
- Year
- 2025
- Series
- Hegel-Rezeption (Volume 3)
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