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50 years of "Sabotage of Fate": Workshop on Ulrich Sonnemann's Negative Anthropology
Fifty years ago, Ulrich Sonnemann's Negative Anthropology was published, whose subtitle "Preliminary Studies on the Sabotage of Destiny" describes its program quite succinctly, insofar as its intention is to break open the fatefulness of anthropological determinations of a supposed human nature through critical theory in order to expose an openness to human spontaneity that enables it to actively fathom itself into a future. Half a century after its appearance, anthropological human corsets continue to cavort as genetic, neuronal, information-technical or neoliberal fixed positions of the human being, whose sabotage is still pending, just as their consequences show their overly clear signs.
This workshop aims not only to recall Ulrich Sonnemann, who taught philosophy at the Gesamthochschule Kassel from 1974-1993, and his book Negative Anthropology, but also to pursue negative anthropology in a lively discussion, as Sonnemann himself saw its task: "Unlocking the human from its denial and absence".