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Not Saved - Essays After Heidegger (Hardcover)
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Not Saved - Essays After Heidegger (Hardcover)
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One can rightly say of Peter Sloterdijk that each of his essays and
lectures is also an unwritten book. That is why the texts presented
here, which sketch a philosophical physiognomy of Martin Heidegger,
should also be characterized as a collected renunciation of
exhaustiveness. In order to situate Heidegger's thought in the
history of ideas and problems, Peter Sloterdijk approaches
Heidegger's work with questions such as: If Western philosophy
emerged from the spirit of the polis, what are we to make of the
philosophical suitability of a man who never made a secret of his
stubborn attachment to rural life? Is there a provincial truth of
which the cosmopolitan city knows nothing? Is there a truth in
country roads and cabins that would be able to undermine the
universities with their standardized languages and globally
influential discourses? From where does this odd professor speak,
when from his professorial chair in Freiburg he claims to inquire
into what lies beyond the history of Western metaphysics?
Sloterdijk also considers several other crucial twentieth-century
thinkers who provide some needed contrast for the philosophical
physiognomy of Martin Heidegger. A consideration of Niklas Luhmann
as a kind of contemporary version of the Devil's Advocate, a
provocative critical interpretation of Theodor Adorno's philosophy
that focuses on its theological underpinnings and which also
includes reflections on the philosophical significance of
hyperbole, and a short sketch of the pessimistic thought of Emil
Cioran all round out and deepen Sloterdijk's attempts to think
with, against, and beyond Heidegger. Finally, in essays such as
"Domestication of Being" and the "Rules for the Human Park," which
incited an international controversy around the time of its
publication and has been translated afresh for this volume,
Sloterdijk develops some of his most intriguing and important ideas
on anthropogenesis, humanism, technology, and genetic engineering.
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