(H/B) BUBBLES

Παρουσίαση

An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and Time. Rejecting the century's predominant philosophical focus on temporality, Sloterdijk, a self-described "student of the air," reinterprets the history of Western metaphysics as an inherently spatial and immunological project, from the discovery of self (bubble) to the exploration of world (globe) to the poetics of plurality (foam). Exploring macro- and micro-space from the Greek agora to the contemporary urban apartment, Sloterdijk is able to synthesize, with immense erudition, the spatial theories of Aristotle, Rene Descartes, Gaston Bachelard, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille into a morphology of shared, or multipolar, dwelling-identifying the question of being as one bound up with the aerial technology of architectonics and anthropogenesis. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preliminary Note
Introduction: The Allies; or, The Breathed Commune
Preliminary Reflections: Thinking the Interior
1. Heart Operation; or, On the Eucharistic Excess
2. Between Faces
On the Appearance of the Interfacial Intimate Sphere
3. Humans in the Magic Circle
On the Intellectual History of the Fascination with Closeness
Excursus 1: Thought Transmission
4. The Retreat Within the Mother
Groundwork for a Negative Gynecology
Excursus 2: Nobjects and Un-Relationships
On the Revision of Psychoanalytical Stage Theory
Excursus 3: The Egg Principle Internalization and Encasement
Excursus 4: "In Dasein There Lies an Essential Tendency towards Closeness."
Heidegger's Doctrine of Existential Place
5. The Primal Companion
Requiem for a Discarded Organ
Excursus 5: The Black Plantation
A Note on Trees of Life and Enlivenment Machines
6. Soul Partitions Angels-Twins-Doubles
Excursus 6: Spheric Mourning
On Nobject Loss and the Difficulty of Saying What Is Missing
Excursus 7: On the Difference Between an Idiot and an Angel
7. The Siren Stage
On the First Sonospheric Alliance
Excursus 8: Illiterate Truths
A Note on Oral Fundamentalism
Excursus 9: Where Lacan Starts to Go Wrong
8. Closer to Me Than I Am Myself
A Theological Preparation for the Theory of the Shared Inside
Excursus 10: Matris in gremio
A Mariological Cricket
Transition: On Ecstatic Immanence
Notes
Photographic Credits