Infinite Mobilization

ISBN-13: 9781509518487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Peter Sloterdijk; Sandra Berjan

Opis

"First published in German as Eurotaoismus: Zur Kritik der politischen Kinetik, Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 1989."

Spis treści

Table of Contents Premises I. The Modern Age as Mobilization 1. The Mobilization of the Planet from the Spirit of Self-Intensification 2. Sketches towards a General Outline of a Critique of Political Kinetics 3. The Prospect of an Asian Renaissance: Towards a Theory of the Ancient II. The Other Change On the Philosophical Situation of Alternative Movements 1. Panicked Culture--Or: How much catastrophe does a person need? 2. The First Alternative: Metaphysics 3. The Second Alternative: Poeisis III. Eurotaoism? 1. Nothingness and Historical Consciousness - A Note on the World History of Life Fatigue 2. The Miscarried Animal and the Self-Birth of the Subject 3. Eurotaoism IV. The Fundamental and the Urgent - or: The Tao of Politics Also a contribution to the answer as to why a credible policy currently does not exist 1. Dimensions of the Gap in Credibility 2. The Voting Voice and the Body-- or: How politics takes part in the crisis of a metaphysics of embodiment 3. From an Ethics of Principle to an Ethos of the Urgent V. Paris Aphorisms on Rationality 1. All that is right 2. Diplomats as Thinkers in Meager Times 3. Low Theory 4. La chose la mieux partagée du monde 5. Geometry as Finesse 6. Unconcealment und Tolerability 7. Of the foolishness to not be an animal 8. Invent yourselves VI. After Modernity 1. The Age of the Epilogue 2. The Interim - or: The Birth of History from the Spirit of Postponement 3. Truth und Symbiosis: On the Geological Abolition of World History 4. For an Ontology of Still-Being

O autorze

Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design. He is one of the most influential philosophers writing today and is the author of many books including The Critique of Cynical Reason, In the World Interior of Capital, Spheres, You Must Change Your Life and What Happened in the 20th Century?