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1. Unverfügbarkeit -- 2. Aggression -- 3. Controllability -- 4. Paradoxicality -- 5. Resonance -- 6. Semicontrollability -- 7. Stages of Life -- 8. Conflict -- 9. Desire -- 10. Uncontrollability -- 11. Agency -- 12. Subject–Object Dichotomy -- 13. (Post)Anthropocentric Relationalism -- 14.Instrumental Reason -- 15.Structure and Culture -- 16.Catch-All Reductionism -- 17.Knowledge-Constitutive Interests -- 18.Power -- 19.Modernity -- 20.Fatalism -- 21.Alienation and Emancipation -- 22.Romanticism -- 23.The Power of Resonance: With, Through, and Beyond Humanity -- 24.The Four Pillars of Resonance: Being Affected, Self-Efficacy, Adaptive Transformation, and Uncontrollability -- 25.The Challenge of Resonance: Problems, Tensions, and Contradictions -- 26. Stages of Life -- 27. Between the Control of Institutions and the Institutionalization of Control -- 28.Between the Uncontrollability of Desire and the Desire for the Uncontrollable -- 29. Conclusion.

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