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50 Years of "Sabotage of Fate": Workshop on Ulrich Sonnemann's Negative Anthropology
Fifty years ago Ulrich Sonnemann published the paper Negative Anthropology , which in its subtitle "Preliminary Studies on the Sabotage of Fate" describes the program quite succinctly, insofar as its intention is to break up 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, unbroken anthropological human corsets 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 does not only want to recall Ulrich Sonnemann, who taught philosophy at the Gesamthochschule Kassel from 1974-1993, and his writing Negative Anthropology , but to pursue negative anthropology in lively conversation, as Sonnemann himself saw its task: "opening up the human from its denial and absence".