@article {11968,
	title = {Auto-Mobilization and the Post-Metaphysical Myth of Progress},
	journal = {Filozofia},
	volume = {70},
	number = {2},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {145-155},
	type = {{\'U}vahy - eseje},
	abstract = {The article deals with the idea of progress which is characterized by its permanent kinetics and motivated by the strive for immortality, even though every living organ- ism is destined to be born, to live and, ultimately, to pass. World-history, as understood by Oswald Spengler and Peter Sloterdijk, is a metaphysical construction {\textendash} a creation of humans, in which they dwell. Due to globalization processes the spatial and timely dimensions become so constricted that all relations vanish; this is the point at which all oppositions coincide and <i>being</i> becomes one with <i>nothing</i>. At the same time, this is the point of the disenchantment of metaphysics. The lost realm of the numinous is to be replaced by the post-metaphysical auto-mobilization which makes it possible for man to become one with the machine, i.e. the generator, or the (prime) mover that was never as immanent in the world-history as he is in the spacetime of the post-metaphysical era.},
	keywords = {(Auto-)mobilization, Globalization, Immortality, Kinetic utopia, Progress, Sloterdijk, World-history},
	author = {Pirc, Tadej}
}
