In medias res : Peter Sloterdijk's spherological poetics of being /

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Imprint:Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2011]
©2011
Description:202 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Sloterdijk, Peter, -- 1947-
Sloterdijk, Peter, -- 1947-
Philosophers -- Germany -- 20th century.
Philosophers -- Germany -- 21st century.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8774991
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Other authors / contributors:Schinkel, Willem, 1976-, editor.
Noordegraaf-Eelens, Liesbeth, 1973-, editor.
ISBN:9789089643292 (paperback)
908964329X (paperback)
9789048514502 (e-book)
9048514509 (e-book)
Notes:"Internationally renowned scholars in a series of critical reflections on the oeuvre of Peter Sloterdijk"--pages 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Sloterdijk has in recent years grown into one of Germany's most influential thinkers. His work, which is extremely relevant for philosophers, scientists of art and culture, sociologists, political scientists and theologists, is only now gradually being translated in English. This book makes his work accessible to a wider audience by putting it to work in orientation towards current issues. Sloterdijk's philosophy moves from a Heideggerian project to think 'space and time' to a Diogenes-inspired 'kynical' affirmation of the body and a Deleuzian ontology of network-spheres. In a range of accessible and clearly written chapters, this book discusses the many aspects of this thought"--Publisher's website.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Peter Sloterdijk's Spherological Acrobatics: An Exercise in Introduction
  • 2. Foamy Business: On the Organizational Politics of Atmospheres
  • 3. "Transgenous Philosophy": Post-humanism, Anthropotechnics and the Poetics of Natal Difference
  • 4. Disinhibition, Subjectivity and Pride. Or: Guess Who Is Looking?
  • Peter Sloterdijk's reconstruction of 'thymotic' qualities, psychoanalysis and the question of spectatorship
  • 5. Sloterdijk and the Question of an Aesthetic
  • 6. Uneasy Places. Monotheism, Christianity, and the Dynamic of the Unlikely in Sloterdijk's Work - Context and Debate
  • 7. The Attention Regime: On Mass Media and the Information Society
  • 8. In the Beginning was the Accident The Crystal Palace as a Cultural Catastrophe and the Emergence of the Cosmic Misfit
  • A critical approach to Peter Sloterdijk's Weltinnenraum des Kapitals vs. Fyodor M. Dostoevsky's Notes from the underground
  • 9. A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design with Special Attention to Peter Sloterdijk
  • 10. Sloterdijk and the Question of Action
  • 11. The Space of Global Capitalism and its Imaginary Imperialism: An Interview with Peter Sloterdijk
  • Contributors
  • Index