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eng: Besides the projects of rationalization in science, living environment and art, which all began to flag, there are three predicaments which each lead to the perfection of a specific reality: The immanence of the human world, the feasibility of things and the production of the male self as 'human nature'. This perfection has now discovered its drawbacks - frightening all of us: The technologization, the mediaization and the capitalization of all living environments, which may result in total implosion. We have to ask the fundamental question of how it is possible to transcend systems (Systemstranszendenz) without falling back on either old theologies or new moralizing options. Traditionally, this question is framed as an individual problem or delegated to particular disciplines. But as a global approach to problem solving, these ideas of a theoretical praxis have failed. According to the theses of Peter Heintel, the transcending of systems (Systemstranszendenz) is an issue of organization, which requires first and foremost the self-reflectivity of the different subsystems and social institutions. The contradictions should not only be understood individually and philosophically but also lead to new organizational forms and contents. One of the most significant contradictions is between the genders. Contrary to the widespread assumption that the gender difference has resolved, has cancelled each other out simultaneously and by imitation, or has been nothing but a question of culturally produced images, the thesis is presented that this difference is to be thought of as fundamental, which influences our physical, psychological and metaphysical actions and thinking. Based on the insight that the male homologous 'Maennerbund' (male organization) still remains in power universally, feminism is understood as a basic questioning of all cultural and political foundations. The present work tries to trace the problem of female community through documentation and self-reflection. But it also discusses the question of gender difference from different perspectives: Science, postmodernism, aesthetics, body and soul. They frame the essays, reports and polemics, working (poetically) with anthropological, psychoanalytical, dialectical (Hegel) and structural elements, with organizational and institutional theories and, generally, with a way of thinking that is committed to difference. This will assist in approaching antagonistic (antinomisch) categories of a female ethic - on this side and on the other side of an immanent debate on ethics - that requires both a concrete (and permanent actual) and general feminism.
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