Preface
Introduction
§1 The Becoming Of Prometheus; §2 Cosmos, Cosmology, And Cosmotechnics; §3 Technological Rupture And Metaphysical Unity; §4 Modernity, Modernisation, And Technicity; §5 What Is The ‘Ontological Turn’ For?; §6 Some Notes On Method
Part 1. In Search of Technological Thought in China
§7 Dao And Cosmos: The Principle Of The Moral; §8 Techne As Violence; §9 Harmony And The Heaven; §10 Dao And Qi: Virtue Contra Freedom; §10.1 Qi And Dao In Daoism: Pao Ding’s Knife; §10.2 Qi And Dao In Confucianism: Restoring The Li; §10.3 Remarks On Stoic And Daoist Cosmotechnics; §11 Qi-Dao As Resistance: The Gu Wen Movement In The Tang Period; §12 The Materialist Theory Of Ch’i In Early Neo-Confucianism; §13 Qi-Dao In Song Yingxing’s Encyclopaedia During The Ming Dynasty; §14 Zhang Xuecheng And The Historicisation Of Dao; §15 The Rupture Of Qi And Dao After The Opium Wars; §16 The Collapse Of Qi-Dao; §16.1 Carsun Chang: Science And The Problem Of Life; §16.2 The Manifesto For A China-Oriented Cultural Development, And Its Critics; §17 Needham’s Question; §17.1 The Organic Mode Of Thought And The Laws Of Nature; §18 Mou Zongsan’s Response; §18.1 Mou Zongsan’s Appropriation Of Kant’s Intellectual Intuition; §18.2 The Self-Negation Of Liangzhi In Mou Zongsan; §19 The Dialectics Of Nature And The End Of Xing Er Shang Xue
Part 2. Modernity and Technological Consciousness
§20 Geometry And Time; §20.1 The Absence Of Geometry In Ancient China; §20.2 Geometrisation And Temporalisation; §20.3 Geometry And Cosmological Specificity; §21 Modernity And Technological Consciousness; §22 The Memory Of Modernity; §23 Nihilism And Modernity; §24 Overcoming Modernity; §25 Anamnesis Of The Postmodern; §26 The Dilemma Of Homecoming; §27 Sinofuturism In The Anthropocene; §28 For Another World History