Contents From Aristotle to Hörl by Jean-Luc Nancy Preface to the German Edition Preface to the English Translation The Sacred Channels Introduction Part I In the Shadow of Formalization: A History of Thinking 1 Blind Thinking around 1900: The Turn from the Intuitive to the Symbolic Thinking the unthinkable The symbolic and intuition Leibniz as a prophet 2 The Symbolic and Communication: The Crisis of Thinking Since 1850 The dead skeleton of logic Symbolist subversion Operations research of the human mind Unrepresentable communication Structuralism and field theory 3 The Sacred and the Genealogy of Thinking: Descent into the Aristotelian Underground The pre-Aristotelian situation of understanding The prehistory of the categories Descartes among the savages Paths of reason Part II The Specter of the Primitive: A Hauntology of Communication 4 The Night of the Human Being: Being and Experience under the Conditions of the Unrepresentable Primitiveness and crisis Savage media Sacred communication Note on heresy 5 The End of the Archaic Illusion: Communication, Information, Cybernetics Desacralizing the channels Coding the real Cybernetics and coldmindedness A new mythology of the binary Appendix: Heidegger and Cybernetics Bibliography Notes Index