From the Book - English edition.
Introduction : on the anthropotechnic turn
The planet of the practising. The command from the stone : Rilke's experience
Remote view of the ascetic planet : Nietzsche's antiquity project
Only cripples will survive : Unthan's lesson
Last hunger art : Kafka's artistes
Parisian Buddhism : Cioran's exercises
Transition : religions do not exist : from Pierre de Coubertin to L. Ron Hubbard
The conquest of the improbable : for an acrobatic ethics. Programme
Height psychology : the doctrine of upward propagation and the meaning of 'over'
'Culture is a monastic rule' : twilight of the life forms, disciplinics
Sleepless in Ephesus : on the demons of habit and their taming through first theory
Habitus and inertia : on the base camps of the practising life
Cur homo artista : on the ease of the impossible
Exaggeration procedures. Backdrop : retreats into unusualness
First eccentricity : on the separation of the practising and their soliloquies
The complete and the incomplete : how the spirit of perfection entangles the practising in stories
Master games : trainers as guarantors of the art of exaggeration
Change of trainer and revolution : on conversions and opportunistic turns
The exercises of the moderns. Prospect : the re-secularization of the withdrawn subject
Art with humans : in the arsenals of anthropotechnics
In the auto-operatively curved space : new human beings between anaesthesia and biopolitics
Exercises and misexercises : the critique of repetition
Retrospective : from the re-embedding of the subject to the relapse into total care
Outlook : the absolute imperative.