Introduction: Three Types of Experience
Chapter One: Have We Forgotten Experience?
1.1 In Praise of the A Posteriori
1.2 Substance
1.3 New Totalitarianisms and Technological Phenomenology: The Chapters
Chapter Two: Experience in Antiquity: Aristotle's A Posteriori Technics
2.1 Technics and Praxis: Aristotle
2.2 Against Theoretical Reason: Praxis, Technics, Contingency
2.3 Form and Substance: Ancients, Christians and Moderns
Chapter Three: Subjective Experience: William James's Radical Empiricism
3.1 James's Radical Empiricism
3.1.1 James and Hume: Radical Empiricism and Classical Empiricism
3.1.2 Experience and its Functions
3.2 Pragmatism: Activities
3.3 Dewey or Formal Pragmatics
3.4 Some Conclusions
Chapter Four: Objective Experience: Methodenstreit and Homo Economicus
4.1 Methodenstreit: Formalists and Substantivists
4.1.1 Historical School: Subjective Experience and Institutions
4.1.2 Max Weber: Subjective Experience as Method, Objective Experience as Outcome
4.2 Classicals and Neoclassicals
4.2.1 Physics and Economics: From Conservation of Substance to Field of Utilities
4.2.2 Scottish Enlightenment
4.3 Conclusions: The Economic and the Political
Chapter Five: Hannah Arendt's A Posteriori Politics: Free Will, Judgment, and Constitutional Fragility
5.1 Ancients and Moderns
5.2 Pax Romana
5.3 After the Polis: Augustine and Free Will
5.4 Politics as Aesthetic Judgment
5.5 Conclusions: From Politics to the Technological System
Chapter Six: Forms of Life: Technological Phenomenology
6.1 Forms of Life: Transformations of Performative Language
6.1.1 Forms of Life and Exclusion: Homo sacer's experience
6.1.2 Language and Forms of life
6.2 Technological Forms of Life
6.2.1 Communicational Forms of Life
6.2.2 Entropy against Negentropy
6.2.3 Incompleteness: From Predications (Science) to Algorithms (Engineering)
6.2.4 System Encounter: War Games or Sex Games?
6.3 Conclusions
Chapter Seven: Aesthetic Multiplicity: The View and the Ten Thousand Things
7.1 Fuzzy Singularities
7.1.1 Views
7.1.2 Art and Singularities
7.2 The Gaze as Multiplicity
7.2.1 Beauty: China against Metaphysics
7.2.2 Mountains that Breathe (and Perceive)
Chapter Eight: Conclusions
8.1 Technology
8.2 Institutions
8.3 Metaphysics or Empirical Multiplicity