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Arendts Nietzsche-Rezeption ist zweifellos durch ihre Kenntnis von Heideggers Philosophie geprägt, aber nicht bestimmt. Wo Arendt Nietzsche wie Heidegger aus denselben Gründen kritisiert, nämlich hinsichtlich ihrer apolitischen Ausrichtung, eröffnet sich für sie zugleich die Stelle, an welcher sie über Heidegger und Nietzsche hinaus einen Grundgedanken Nietzsches aufgreift und über ihn hinaus fortentwickelt: der Mensch ist ein Tier, ‚das versprechen darf‘. Schlüsselwörter: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Seinsgeschichte, Genealogie der Moral, Versprechen / Abstract: Arendt’s reception of Nietzsche is undoubtedly shaped by her knowledge of Heidegger’s philosophy, but not determined by it. Where Arendt criticizes Nietzsche and Heidegger for the same reasons, namely with regard to their apolitical orientation, she also takes up and develops a basic idea of Nietzsche’s and takes it beyond Heidegger and Nietzsche: man is an animal ‚with the right to make promises‘.

This research investigates the rise, transformation, and contested persistence of blockchain and AI within China’s digital governance ecosystem, tracing how AI inherits and transforms blockchain’s discursive legacy: the libertarian imaginaries of decentralization and cryptographic trust are rearticulated into new narratives of centralized data infrastructures, computational power, and algorithmic authority. Seen through this inheritance, blockchain’s trajectory appears not as a linear transition from hype to repression, but as a process of paradoxical infrastructuring, where blockchain’s affordances for decentralizing possibilities are alternately valorized, domesticated, and strategically redeployed within contradictory regimes of power. Bringing together Foucault’s theory of governmentality, developed to interrogate Cold War modernity, and Michael Szonyi’s framework of “the art of being governed,” which captures the tactical adaptations of subjects under premodern Chinese statecraft, this analysis reveals how infrastructural governance in China is shaped by the agonistic interplay between historically sedimented repertoires of rule and their contemporary rearticulation through participatory contestations and adaptive strategies enacted by a plurality of stakeholders. Since the reform and opening-up era, these logics have not coexisted peacefully but clashed in painful and dramatic ways, producing new modes of infrastructural subjectivation. The study foregrounds intermediary actors, including crypto developers, influencer-entrepreneurs, and policy-facing venture capitals, who perform decentralization while materially benefiting from its state-sanctioned translation. These figures occupy the ambiguous space between resistance and complicity, tactically navigating regulatory opacity and ideological elasticity. The discourse once attached to blockchain has not disappeared; it re-emerges in the AI era as tools for imagining trustworthiness and legitimacy, enabling blockchain actors to revalorize themselves after the burst of the earlier hype. Ultimately, what appears as a shift from blockchain to AI is better understood as a recursive recalibration of infrastructural power: blockchain’s imaginaries and architectures do not vanish but are folded into the emerging socio-technical apparatus of AI, that is, the interlinked infrastructures, institutions, and discourses through which governance and contestation are exercised. In this process, ideological contradiction functions not as a failure in governance but as a generative feature of China’s evolving techno-infrastructural governance.

Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation. Colin Koopman engages genealogy as a philosophical tradition and a method for understanding the complex histories of our present social and cultural conditions. He explains how our understanding of Foucault can benefit from productive dialogue with philosophical allies to push Foucaultian genealogy a step further and elaborate a means of addressing our most intractable contemporary problems.

Combining philosophical acuity, psychological insight and a remarkably powerful prose style, On the Genealogy of Morality is a dazzling and brilliantly incisive attack on European morality. David Owen situates the Genealogy in the context of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy and offers readers a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of this great text. He provides a lucid account of Nietzsche's reasons for adopting a \"genealogical\" investigation of our moral values as well as a detailed analysis of the Genealogy itself. Highlighting the key features of Nietzsche's critique of morality and his call for a re-evaluation of values, Owen shows how the arguments and rhetoric of the Genealogy combine to undermine our modern understanding of moral agency. Rich in insight, Owen's book is a distinctive and significant contribution to our understanding of this landmark work of western philosophy.

Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes, the answers to these seemingly straightforward questions have profound ramifications. The rise of DNA testing has further complicated the issues and raised the stakes. In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful-and problematic-scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations. At a larger level, TallBear asserts, the \"markers\" that are identified and applied to specific groups such as Native American tribes bear the imprints of the cultural, racial, ethnic, national, and even tribal misinterpretations of the humans who study them. TallBear notes that ideas about racial science, which informed white definitions of tribes in the nineteenth century, are unfortunately being revived in twenty-first-century laboratories. Because today's science seems so compelling, increasing numbers of Native Americans have begun to believe their own metaphors: \"in our blood\" is giving way to \"in our DNA.\" This rhetorical drift, she argues, has significant consequences, and ultimately she shows how Native American claims to land, resources, and sovereignty that have taken generations to ratify may be seriously-and permanently-undermined.

Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and sociologist Norbert Elias are both famous for their influential interpretations of modern European culture as a whole. Nietzsche'sOn the Genealogy of Moralsand Elias'The Civilizing Processcrossed disciplinary boundaries with respect to both content and method, and both books are still of great contemporary interest. This volume brings international specialists together for the first time to explore the connections between these two works.

A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert, he spent years writing under a series of fantastical pseudonyms, lavishing all the splendor of his magnificent mind on a seldom-appreciative world. He had a tragic love affair with a young girl, was dominated by an unforgettable Old Testament father, fought a sensational literary duel with a popular satiric magazine, and died in the midst of a violent quarrel with the state church for which he had once studied theology. Yet this iconoclast produced a number of brilliant books that have profoundly influenced modern thought. In this classic biography, the celebrated Kierkegaard translator Walter Lowrie presents a charming and warmly appreciative introduction to the life and work of the great Danish writer. Lowrie tells the story of Kierkegaard's emotionally turbulent life with a keen sense of drama and an acute understanding of how his life shaped his thought. The result is a wonderfully informative and entertaining portrait of one of the most important thinkers of the past two centuries. This edition also includes Lowrie's wry essay \"How Kierkegaard Got into English,\" which tells the improbable story of how Lowrie became one of Kierkegaard's principal English translators despite not learning Danish until he was in his 60s, as well as a new introduction by Kierkegaard scholar Alastair Hannay.

Das Dorf wird in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht nur zum Schauplatz der Produktion und Reflexion sozialer Beziehungen. Das Verhältnis von Natur und Gesellschaft wird vielmehr ökologisch, das heißt, zu einem dynamischen Netz von Existenzbedingungen. Die Analyse ökologischen Erzählens bei Felder und Anzengruber macht poetologische und diskursive Verfahren der Umweltproduktion sichtbar. Sie liest Dorfgeschichten als Teil einer ,,History of Environmental Reflexivity\" (Locher, Fressoz 2012) und unterläuft damit Narrative, die ,Umweltbewusstsein' zur alleinigen Sache der Gegenwart erklären.

What might be wrong with genetic accounts of personal or shared ancestry and origins? Genetic studies are often presented as valuable ways of understanding where we come from and how people are related. In Genetic Geographies , Catherine Nash pursues their troubling implications for our perception of sexual and national, as well as racial, difference. Bringing an incisive geographical focus to bear on new genetic histories and genetic genealogy, Nash explores the making of ideas of genetic ancestry, indigeneity, and origins; the global human family; and national genetic heritage. In particular, she engages with the science, culture, and commerce of ancestry in the United States and the United Kingdom, including National Geographic’s Genographic Project and the People of the British Isles project. Tracing the tensions and contradictions between the emphasis on human genetic similarity and shared ancestry, and the attention given to distinctive patterns of relatedness and different ancestral origins, Nash challenges the assumption that the concepts of shared ancestry are necessarily progressive. She extends this scrutiny to claims about the “natural” differences between the sexes and the “nature” of reproduction in studies of the geography of human genetic variation. Through its focus on sex, nation, and race, and its novel spatial lens, Genetic Geographies provides a timely critical guide to what happens when genetic science maps relatedness.

Genetische Informationen sind immer umfangreicher verfügbar und können im Rahmen der Digitalisierung zunehmend für verschiedene Anwendungen genutzt werden. Auch in polizeilichen Kontexten, wo genetische Daten schon seit Jahrzehnten genutzt werden, ergeben sich immer weitere Verwendungsmöglichkeiten etwa zur Identifizierung von Personen. Daneben wird genwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen aber schon seit jeher ein prognostisches Potential mit Blick auf menschliches (delinquentes) Verhalten zugeschrieben. Dieser Zusammenhang macht mit genetischem Wissen unterfütterte Kontrolltechnologien interessant für eine Kriminalpolitik, die eine kriminalitätsfreie bzw. erheblich kriminalitätsreduzierte Gesellschaft anvisiert hat. Mit einem solchen Ziel vor Augen muss ein wirksamer Implementierungsrahmen für die praktische Anwendung derartiger Technologien geschaffen werden, damit der polizeiliche Zugriff auf genetische Informationen nicht als „inquisitorischer Impuls“ eine strukturelle Benachteiligung betroffener Personen schafft. Genetic information is becoming more and more widely available and can increasingly be used for various applications by ways of digitization. Also, in police contexts, where genetic data have been used for decades, there are ever more possible uses, for example to identify individuals. In addition, genetic discoveries have always been considered to have prognostic potential regarding human (delinquent) behaviour. This connection makes control technologies based on genetic knowledge interesting for a criminal policy that aims at a crime-free or significantly crime-reduced society. With such a vision in mind, an effective implementation framework for the practical application of such technologies must be created, so that police access to genetic information as an \"inquisitorial impulse\" does not create a structural disadvantage for the persons concerned.