Contents
Prologue. A Time of Catastrophes
Part One | Risk and Fatality
Chapter 1. A Singular Point of View
Chapter 2. Sacrifice, Counterproductivity, and Ethics, or the Logic of the Detour
Chapter 3. Fate, Risk, and Responsibility
Chapter 4. The Autonomy of Technology
Chapter 5. Doomsaying on Trial
Part Two | The Limits of Economic Rationality
Chapter 6. Precaution, Between Risk and Uncertainty
Chapter 7. The Veil of Ignorance and Moral Luck
Chapter 8. Knowing Is Not Believing
Part Three | The Limits of Moral Philosophy and the Necessity of Metaphysics
Chapter 9. Memory of the Future
Chapter 10. Predicting the Future in Order to Change It (Jonah vs. Jonas)
Chapter 11. Projected Time and Occurring Time
Chapter 12. The Rationality of Doomsaying
Notes
Index