SLOTERDIJK PETER

ΣΤΗ ΣΚΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΣΙΝΑ
Σε αυτό το δοκίμιο, ο Πέτερ Σλότερνταϊκ αποσαφηνίζει τις θέσεις του για τη θρησκεία και τον ρόλο της στις προνεωτερικές και τις νεωτερικές κοινωνίες, με αφετηρία τη βιβλική αφήγηση του επεισοδίου που έλαβε χώρα στο όρος Σινά μετά τη σύναψη Διαθήκης ανάμεσα στον Θεό και τον ιουδαϊκό λαό μέσω του Μωυσή (βιβλίο της Εξόδου). Εκεί, σύμφωνα με τον συγγραφέα, αναδύθηκε για πρώτη φορά αυτό που ο ίδιος ονομάζει "μοντέλο Σινά": η λογική της ολικής συμμετοχής σε μια κοινότητα, μέσω της απόλυτης υπακοής στις επιταγές της κοινής πίστης, όπως και της κο...
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(H/B) BUBBLES
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 ago...
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(P/B) NIETZSCHE APOSTLE
For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a "catastrophe in the history of language" - a new evangelist for a linguistics of narcissistic jubilation. Nietzsche offered a philosophical declaration of independence from humility, a meeting-point of sobriety and megalomania that for Sloterdijk has come to define the very project of philosophy. Yet for all the significance of this language-event named Nietzsche, Nietzsche's contributions have too often been elided and the contradictions at the root of his philosophy ...
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(P/B) THE AESTHETIC IMPERATIVE
In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, his analyses span the centuries, from ancient civilizations to contemporary Hollywood. With great verve and insight he considers the key issues that have faced thinkers from Aristotle to Adorno, looking at art in its relation to ethics, metaphysics, society, po...
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(H/B) FOAMS
Foams completes Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy: his 2,500-page "grand narrative" retelling of the history of humanity, as related through the anthropological concept of the "Sphere." For Sloterdijk, life is a matter of form and, in life, sphere formation and thought are two different labels for the same thing. The trilogy also offers his corrective answer to Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, reformulating it into a lengthy meditation on Being and Space - a shifting of the question of who we are to a more fundamental questio...
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(P/B) TERROR FROM THE AIR
According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in Northern France. That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the adversary's vital function first. Using poison gas signaled the passage from classical war to terrorism. This terror from the air inaugurated an era in which the main idea was no longer to target the enemy's body, but their environ...
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ΚΑΝΟΝΕΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΠΑΡΚΟ
Τα βιβλία, παρατήρησε κάποτε ο συγγραφέας Ζαν-Πωλ, δεν είναι παρά ογκώδεις επιστολές προς φίλους. Με αυτή τη ρήση κατονόμασε με ακρίβεια και χάρη την πεμπτουσία της φύσης και της λειτουργίας του ανθρωπισμού: Είναι μια τηλεπικοινωνία μέσω της γραφής και δημιουργεί φιλία. (. . .) Γράμματα που δεν επιδίδονται πια, παύουν να είναι ταχυδρομικές επιστολές σε πιθανούς φίλους - μεταμορφώνονται σε αντικείμενα αρχείων. Ακόμη και το γεγονός ότι τα καθοριστικά βιβλία του μακρινού παρελθόντος σταδιακά έχουν πάψει να είναι επιστολές προς φίλους και ότι ...
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(H/B) GLOBES
All history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion.--from Globes In Globes -- the second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated magnum opus Spheres trilogy -- the author attempts nothing less than to uncover the philosophical foundations of the political history -- the history of humanity -- of the last two thousand years. The first, well-received volume of the author's Spheres trilogy, Bubbles, dealt with microspheres: the fact that individuals, from the fetal stage to childhood, are never alone, because they alw...
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(P/B) RAGE AND TIME
While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that, following Plato, contains spirit, pride, and indignation. Rather, Christianity and psychoanalysis have promoted mutual understanding to overcome conflict. Through unique examples, Peter Sloterdijk, the preeminent posthumanist, argues exactly the opposite, showing how the history of Western civi...
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(P/B) GOD'S ZEAL
The conflicts between the three great monotheistic religions - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are shaping our world more than ever before. In this important new book Peter Sloterdijk returns to the origins of monotheism in order to shed new light on the conflict of the faiths today. Following the polytheism of the ancient civilizations of the Egyptians, Hittites and Babylonians, Jewish monotheism was born as a theology of protest, as a religion of triumph within defeat. While the religion of the Jews remained limited to their own peopl...
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(P/B) NEITHER SUN NOR DEATH
Peter Sloterdijk first became known in this country for his late 1980s Critique of Cynical Reason, which confronted headlong the "enlightened false consciousness" of Habermasian critical theory. Two decades later, after spending seven years in India studying Eastern philosophy, he is now attracting renewed interest for his writings on politics and globalization and for his magnum opus Spheres, a three-volume archaeology of the human attempt to dwell within spaces, from womb to globe: Bubbles, 1998; Globes, 1999; Foam, 2004, all forthcoming...
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