-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...