Martin Kurthen studied medicine in Bochum and Bonn (Germany). He received his medical doctorate in 1985 for his dissertation on the concept of pain in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He has worked at the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Epileptology of the University of Bonn since 1986. His work has concentrated on the fields of epileptology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy. He received his postdoctoral qualification for clinical neuropsychology in 1992 for his habilitation treatise on "Neurosemantics". He has been an Associate Professor for neurology and clinical neuropsychology at the University of Bonn since 1997, and Senior Neurologist at the Swiss Epilepsy Center in Zurich since 2005. He is the author of numerous journal articles and other publications on the analytic philosophy of mind, depth psychology, epileptology, neuropsychology, and neurophysiology.

Foreword . - No Answer to the Question: What is (Post-)human?. - The Good Posthuman from California. - The Non-human Interfaces of the Real, Symbolic and Imaginary . - From the Nether Regions into Positivity: The Ubiquitous Loss of the Nexus. The Illusion of the Illusion. Under the 'Shroud of the Hidden Sense'. Positive Signs. The Rectified Drive of the Puppets. - Forwards to Nature: The Tertiary Nature. The Possibility of Natural Intelligence. No more Need for Bodies? Black Posthumanism. - Consciousness and the Unconscious - A Package Deal: Consciousness that comes to be ... . ... deserves to perish wretchedly. A Last Subject. Objective Enjoyment. - Hermetics as a Medium. - References. - About theAuthor.