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If a revolutionary age is an age of action, then our age is marked by Internet advertisement and publicity, informational capitalism, and the rise of global police violence in response to post-9/11 security threats and pro-Democracy movements in the Arab world. Taking Kierkegaard as point of departure, the text festively explores the nature of philosophical faith, global catastrophic risks that threaten the future of humanity, and the inevitable foundering of existence, Existenz, and truth in time. What role will philosophical faith, foundering, and active sufferance play on our present historical stage? Periechontological orientation and existential "redirection" open on to absolute consciousness in faith and love that may bring about greater communicative solidarity among human beings and take humanitas further up the road to the future than technologies of "radical enhancement" projected by transhumanism. The poem Verstehen, dedicated to the founders of the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, is presented in the Epilogue.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2223-1_23

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