What Happened in the Twentieth Century?: Towards a Critique of Extremist Reason

ISBN-13: 9781509518388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str.

Sloterdijk Peter

Opis

When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see?

Recenzje

"From a philosophical reflection on the Anthropocene to a reconsideration of Heidegger's politics, Sloterdijk gathers here a Borgesian palimpsest of ways of looking at our history and historicity. This is Sloterdijk's response to Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes - it is a book of ideas and Cyclopean landscapes that gives us a new diagnosis of our times." --Eduardo Mendieta, Penn State University

Spis treści

• The Anthropocene – A Stage in the Process on the Margins of the Earth′s History?
• From the Domestication of the Human Being to the Civilizing of Cultures: Answering the Question of Whether Humanity is Capable of Taming Itself
• The Ocean Experiment: From Nautical Globalization to a General Ecology
• The Synchronized World: Philosophical Aspects of Globalization
• What Happened in the 20th Century? Toward a Critique of Extremist Reason
• The Thinker in the Haunted Castle: On Derrida′s Interpretation of Dreams
• Deep Observation: Towards a Philosophy of the Space Station
• The Permanent Renaissance: The Italian Novella and News of Modernity
• Heidegger′s Politics: Postponing the End of History
• Odysseus the Sophist: On the Birth of Philosophy from the Spirit of Travel Stress
• Almost Sacred Text: Essay on the Constitution
• The Other Logos, or the Reason of Cunning: On the Intellectual History of the Indirect
• Editorial Note
• Notes

O autorze

Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design.