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Ron Mueck (Hardcover): Ron Mueck Ron Mueck (Hardcover)
Ron Mueck; Text written by Justin Paton, Robert Rosenblum, Peter Sloterdijk, Robert Storr
R1,335 R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Save R96 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Terrible Children of Modernity (Hardcover): Peter Sloterdijk The Terrible Children of Modernity (Hardcover)
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Oliver Berghof; Introduction by Efraín Kristal
R2,397 Discovery Miles 23 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Peter Sloterdijk is among the most acclaimed and widely read philosophers of the past half-century. Called “Germany’s most controversial thinker” by the New Yorker, he has challenged and provoked readers worldwide with extraordinarily ambitious and wide-ranging works of philosophical and cultural critique. In The Terrible Children of Modernity, Sloterdijk offers a magisterial and profound investigation into the vicissitudes of historical change and the nature of modernity. For Sloterdijk, modernity is defined by its need to break with the past. Moderns are perpetual rebels who seek to sever the ties of tradition and forms of inheritance that bind generations and eras together. With deep philosophical, historical, and literary range, he traces this antigenealogical experiment from the French Revolution onward, from Madame de Pompadour and Napoleon through Nietzsche, Marx, Wagner, the Dadaists, and Deleuze. Acutely aware of the destructive potential of cultural discontinuities, Sloterdijk is no less critical of the “fathers” who condemn change than the “terrible children” who seek a drastic rupture with their predecessors. Equally concerned with the grand sweep of history and our current predicaments, he instead calls for new ways to live together in the intersubjectivity of the human condition. Incisive and daring, breathtaking in its scope, this account of youthful rebellion against tradition asks us to reimagine the ethics of genealogy.

Thinker On Stage - Nietzsche’s Materialism (Paperback): Peter Sloterdijk Thinker On Stage - Nietzsche’s Materialism (Paperback)
Peter Sloterdijk
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Thinker on Stage is Peter Sloterdijk's audacious, empathetic reading of Friedrich Nietzche's first published work, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music.

Critique Of Cynical Reason (Paperback): Peter Sloterdijk Critique Of Cynical Reason (Paperback)
Peter Sloterdijk
R808 R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Save R86 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Upon its publication in Germany in 1983, this author's book stirred both critical acclaim and consternation, attracting a wide readership. He finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture, in personal and institutional settings; his book is both a history of the impulse and an investigation of its role today, among those whose earlier hopes for social change have crumbled and faded away.

The Art of Philosophy - Wisdom as a Practice (Paperback): Peter Sloterdijk The Art of Philosophy - Wisdom as a Practice (Paperback)
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Karen Margolis
R469 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In his best-selling book "You Must Change Your Life," Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of sophisticated thought. Infused with humor and provocative insight, The Art of Philosophy further integrates philosophy and human existence, richly detailing the foundations of this relationship and its transformative role in making the postmodern self.

Sloterdijk begins with Plato's description of Socrates, whose internal monologues were so absorbing they often rooted the philosopher in place. The original academy, Sloterdijk argues, taught scholars to lose themselves in thought, and today's universities continue this tradition by offering scope for Plato's "accommodations for absences." By training scholars to practice thinking as an occupation transcending daily time and space, universities create the environment in which thought makes wisdom possible. Traversing the history of asceticism, the concept of suspended animation, and the theory of the neutral observer, Sloterdijk traces the evolution of philosophical practice from ancient times to today, showing how scholars can remain true to the tradition of "the examined life" even when the temporal dimension no longer corresponds to the eternal. Building on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Arendt, and other practitioners of the life of theory, Sloterdijk launches a posthumanist defense of philosophical inquiry and its everyday, therapeutic value.

Gelatin - Vorm - Fellows - Attitude (Paperback): Gelatin Gelatin - Vorm - Fellows - Attitude (Paperback)
Gelatin; Text written by Peter Sloterdijk, Dieter Roelstraete, Francesco Stocchi, Sjarel Ex; Interview by …
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Terrible Children of Modernity: Peter Sloterdijk The Terrible Children of Modernity
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Oliver Berghof; Introduction by Efraín Kristal
R749 Discovery Miles 7 490 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Peter Sloterdijk is among the most acclaimed and widely read philosophers of the past half-century. Called “Germany’s most controversial thinker” by the New Yorker, he has challenged and provoked readers worldwide with extraordinarily ambitious and wide-ranging works of philosophical and cultural critique. In The Terrible Children of Modernity, Sloterdijk offers a magisterial and profound investigation into the vicissitudes of historical change and the nature of modernity. For Sloterdijk, modernity is defined by its need to break with the past. Moderns are perpetual rebels who seek to sever the ties of tradition and forms of inheritance that bind generations and eras together. With deep philosophical, historical, and literary range, he traces this antigenealogical experiment from the French Revolution onward, from Madame de Pompadour and Napoleon through Nietzsche, Marx, Wagner, the Dadaists, and Deleuze. Acutely aware of the destructive potential of cultural discontinuities, Sloterdijk is no less critical of the “fathers” who condemn change than the “terrible children” who seek a drastic rupture with their predecessors. Equally concerned with the grand sweep of history and our current predicaments, he instead calls for new ways to live together in the intersubjectivity of the human condition. Incisive and daring, breathtaking in its scope, this account of youthful rebellion against tradition asks us to reimagine the ethics of genealogy.

Rage and Time - A Psychopolitical Investigation (Hardcover): Peter Sloterdijk Rage and Time - A Psychopolitical Investigation (Hardcover)
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Mario Wenning
R2,028 Discovery Miles 20 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 civilization can be read as a suppression and return of rage.

By way of reinterpreting the "Iliad," Alexandre Dumas's "Count of Monte Cristo," and recent Islamic political riots in Paris, Sloterdijk proves the fallacy that rage is an emotion capable of control. Global terrorism and economic frustrations have rendered strong emotions visibly resurgent, and the consequences of violent outbursts will determine international relations for decades to come. To better respond to rage and its complexity, Sloterdijk daringly breaks with entrenched dogma and contructs a new theory for confronting conflict. His approach acknowledges and respects the proper place of rage and channels it into productive political struggle.

Rage and Time - A Psychopolitical Investigation (Paperback): Peter Sloterdijk Rage and Time - A Psychopolitical Investigation (Paperback)
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Mario Wenning
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 civilization can be read as a suppression and return of rage.

By way of reinterpreting the "Iliad," Alexandre Dumas's "Count of Monte Cristo," and recent Islamic political riots in Paris, Sloterdijk proves the fallacy that rage is an emotion capable of control. Global terrorism and economic frustrations have rendered strong emotions visibly resurgent, and the consequences of violent outbursts will determine international relations for decades to come. To better respond to rage and its complexity, Sloterdijk daringly breaks with entrenched dogma and contructs a new theory for confronting conflict. His approach acknowledges and respects the proper place of rage and channels it into productive political struggle.

Theory of the Post-War Periods - Observations on Franco-German relations since 1945 (Paperback): Peter Sloterdijk Theory of the Post-War Periods - Observations on Franco-German relations since 1945 (Paperback)
Peter Sloterdijk; Foreword by Klaus-Dieter Muller; Translated by Robert Payne
R783 R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Save R106 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Studying both France and Germany in its discussion of post-war issues, this book uses a new cultural-theoretical approach to develop a philosophy to overcome post-war traumata, or the traumatization effects that affect entire national cultures.

En El Mismo Barco (English, Spanish, Paperback): Peter Sloterdijk En El Mismo Barco (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Peter Sloterdijk
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Spharen 1 - Blasen (German, Paperback, illustrated edition): Peter Sloterdijk Spharen 1 - Blasen (German, Paperback, illustrated edition)
Peter Sloterdijk
R1,000 R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Save R94 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Philosophical Temperaments - From Plato to Foucault (Paperback): Peter Sloterdijk Philosophical Temperaments - From Plato to Foucault (Paperback)
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Thomas Dunlap; Foreword by Creston Davis
R481 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in personal characterizations and theoretical analysis, Sloterdijk's companionable volume casts the development of philosophical thinking not as a buildup of compelling books and arguments but as a lifelong, intimate struggle with intellectual and spiritual movements, filled with as many pitfalls and derailments as transcendent breakthroughs. Sloterdijk delves into the work and times of Aristotle, Augustine, Bruno, Descartes, Foucault, Fichte, Hegel, Husserl, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Marx, Nietzsche, Pascal, Plato, Sartre, Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Wittgenstein. He provocatively juxtaposes Plato against shamanism and Marx against Gnosticism, revealing both the vital external influences shaping these intellectuals' thought and the excitement and wonder generated by the application of their thinking in the real world. The philosophical "temperament" as conceived by Sloterdijk represents the uniquely creative encounter between the mind and a diverse array of cultures. It marks these philosophers' singular achievements and the special dynamic at play in philosophy as a whole. Creston Davis's introduction details Sloterdijk's own temperament, surveying the celebrated thinker's intellectual context, rhetorical style, and philosophical persona.

The Art of Philosophy - Wisdom as a Practice (Hardcover): Peter Sloterdijk The Art of Philosophy - Wisdom as a Practice (Hardcover)
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Karen Margolis
R1,458 R1,351 Discovery Miles 13 510 Save R107 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In his best-selling book "You Must Change Your Life," Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of sophisticated thought. Infused with humor and provocative insight, The Art of Philosophy further integrates philosophy and human existence, richly detailing the foundations of this relationship and its transformative role in making the postmodern self.

Sloterdijk begins with Plato's description of Socrates, whose internal monologues were so absorbing they often rooted the philosopher in place. The original academy, Sloterdijk argues, taught scholars to lose themselves in thought, and today's universities continue this tradition by offering scope for Plato's "accommodations for absences." By training scholars to practice thinking as an occupation transcending daily time and space, universities create the environment in which thought makes wisdom possible. Traversing the history of asceticism, the concept of suspended animation, and the theory of the neutral observer, Sloterdijk traces the evolution of philosophical practice from ancient times to today, showing how scholars can remain true to the tradition of "the examined life" even when the temporal dimension no longer corresponds to the eternal. Building on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Arendt, and other practitioners of the life of theory, Sloterdijk launches a posthumanist defense of philosophical inquiry and its everyday, therapeutic value.

Prometheus's Remorse - From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson: Peter Sloterdijk Prometheus's Remorse - From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Hunter Bolin
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philosophical Temperaments - From Plato to Foucault (Hardcover): Peter Sloterdijk Philosophical Temperaments - From Plato to Foucault (Hardcover)
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Thomas Dunlap; Foreword by Creston Davis
R1,463 R1,356 Discovery Miles 13 560 Save R107 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in personal characterizations and theoretical analysis, Sloterdijk's companionable volume casts the development of philosophical thinking not as a buildup of compelling books and arguments but as a lifelong, intimate struggle with intellectual and spiritual movements, filled with as many pitfalls and derailments as transcendent breakthroughs. Sloterdijk delves into the work and times of Aristotle, Augustine, Bruno, Descartes, Foucault, Fichte, Hegel, Husserl, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Marx, Nietzsche, Pascal, Plato, Sartre, Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Wittgenstein. He provocatively juxtaposes Plato against shamanism and Marx against Gnosticism, revealing both the vital external influences shaping these intellectuals' thought and the excitement and wonder generated by the application of their thinking in the real world. The philosophical "temperament" as conceived by Sloterdijk represents the uniquely creative encounter between the mind and a diverse array of cultures. It marks these philosophers' singular achievements and the special dynamic at play in philosophy as a whole. Creston Davis's introduction details Sloterdijk's own temperament, surveying the celebrated thinker's intellectual context, rhetorical style, and philosophical persona.

Globes - Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology (Hardcover): Peter Sloterdijk Globes - Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology (Hardcover)
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Wieland Hoban
R1,153 R966 Discovery Miles 9 660 Save R187 (16%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization. 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 always incorporate the Other into themselves and align themselves with it. With Globes, Sloterdijk opens up a history of the political world using the morphological models of the orb and the globe, and argues that all previous statements about globalization have suffered from shortsightedness. For him, globalization begins with the ancient Greeks, who represented the whole world through the shape of the orb. With the discovery of America and the first circumnavigations of the earth, the orb was replaced by the globe. This second globalization is currently giving way to the third, which we are living through today, as the general virtuality of all conditions leads to a growing spatial crisis. Peter Sloterdijk tells here the true story of globalization: from the geometrization of the sky in Plato and Aristotle to the circumnavigation of the last orb-the earth-by ships, capital, and signals.

Bubbles - Spheres Volume I: Microspherology (Hardcover, New): Peter Sloterdijk Bubbles - Spheres Volume I: Microspherology (Hardcover, New)
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Wieland Hoban
R1,000 R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Save R111 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk's monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity's engagement with intimate spaces. 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. Sloterdijk describes Bubbles, the first volume of Spheres, as a general theory of the structures that allow couplings-or as the book's original intended subtitle put it, an "archeology of the intimate." Bubbles includes a wide array of images, not to illustrate Sloterdijk's discourse, but to offer a spatial and visual "parallel narrative" to his exploration of bubbles. Written over the course of a decade, the Spheres trilogy has waited another decade for its much-anticipated English translation from Semiotext(e). Volumes II, Globes, and III, Foam, will be published in the coming seasons.

Esferas II (English, Spanish, Paperback): Peter Sloterdijk Esferas II (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Peter Sloterdijk
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Spharen 2 - Globen (German, Paperback): Peter Sloterdijk Spharen 2 - Globen (German, Paperback)
Peter Sloterdijk
R1,004 Discovery Miles 10 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Foams - Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology (Hardcover): Peter Sloterdijk Foams - Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology (Hardcover)
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Wieland Hoban
R1,140 R953 Discovery Miles 9 530 Save R187 (16%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The final volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the phenomenology of community and its spatial peripheries. "So the One Orb has imploded-now the foams are alive." -from 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 question of where we are. In this final volume, Sloterdijk's "plural spherology" moves from the historical perspective on humanity of the preceding two volumes to a philosophical theory of our contemporary era, offering a view of life through a multifocal lens. If Bubbles was Sloterdijk's phenomenology of intimacy, and Globes his phenomenology of globalization, Foams could be described as his phenomenology of spatial plurality: how the bubbles that we form in our duality bind together to form what sociological tradition calls "society." Foams is an exploration of capsules, islands, and hothouses that leads to the discovery of the foam city. The Spheres trilogy ultimately presents a theology without a God-a spatial theology that requires no God, whose death therefore need not be of concern. As with the two preceding volumes, Foams can be read on its own or in relation to the rest of the trilogy.

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