Devouring One's Own Tail

Vojtěch Kolman is professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Charles University. Tomáš Murár is an art historian in the Department of Historiography and Theory of Art at the Czech Academy of Sciences

• Introduction: “All That Is Straight Lies” (Vojtech Kolman)Part I: Methods of Self-Creation The Method Is Justified by Its Outcome (Miroslav Petrícek)From Boundaries to Interfaces: Autopoietic Systems and the “Ontology of Motion” (Martin Procházka)“I am the Combat”: Hegel’s Dramatic Theory of Knowledge (Vojtech Kolman)Part 2: Narratives of Self-Creation and Self-DestructionAutopoiesis and “Pure Culture of Death Instinct”: Creativity as a Suicidal Project (Josef Vojvodík)The Dark Side of the End of Art (Tomáš Murár)The Author in the Making: Ethos, Posture, and Self-Creation (Josef Šebek)A Negative Autopoietic Principle in French Interpretations of Hegel – Breton, Sartre, Bataille (Eva Voldrichová-Beránková)Part 3: Religion and Education as Autopoietic ProjectsLuhmann’s Religious Carnival and the Limits of Communication (Tereza Matejcková)Historical Transformations of Christianity and Luhmann’s Theory of Autopoietic Systems (Tomáš Halík)On Universities and Contemporary Society: The Issue of Trust (Jakub Jirsa)Part 4: Society in an Autopoietic PerspectiveAn Autopoieticist Vision of Society: Luhmann’s Social System Theory and the Understanding of Medieval Transformation (Tomáš Klír)Participatory Sense-Making through Bodies: Self-Organizing Principles in the Continuity of Life and Mind (Eva Lehecková and Jakub Jehlicka)Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation as Viruses in Social Media (Josef Šlerka)Aspiring Autopoiesis and Its Troubles: What Else Is Produced When the Nation Is Reproduced (Ondrej Slacálek)