Research Catalog

Title

Sloterdijk now / edited by Stuart Elden.

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

Elden, Stuart, 1971-

Description

xv, 213 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most challenging and contentious thinkers currently working within the European tradition. This is the first collection devoted to his work for English-language audiences and will act as an introduction to his work, set an agenda for engagement with his ideas, and relate his writings to a range of political, theoretical and practical contexts. Since his philosophical bestseller Critique of Cynical Reason (1983), Sloterdijk has exercised an important influence over German and other European thought and recently interest in his diverse oeuvre has grown considerably. The past few years have seen a number of his books translated into English, with many more to come. The book seeks to do justice to the breadth of Sloterdijk's work throughout his career, orientated around the central topics of cynicism, ressentiment, the posthuman, space and world, art and literature, language, social science and his role as a public intellectual. Contributors include Babette Babich, Sjoerd van Tuinen, Eduardo Mendieta, Marie-Eve Morin, Efrain Kristol, Wieland Hoban, Nigel Thrift, Jean-Pierre Couture, and Sloterdijk himself"--Publisher.

Series Statement

Theory now

Uniform Title

Theory now.

Subjects

• Philosophers
• Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Germany
• Sloterdijk, Peter
• Philosophers > Germany > 20th century
• Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947- > Criticism and interpretation
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• 1900 - 1999
• Philosophie

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-202) and index.

Contents

Worlds, engagements, temperaments / Stuart Elden -- Sloterdijk's cynicism : Diogenes in the marketplace / Babette Babich -- From psychopolitics to cosmopolitics : the problem of resssentiment / Sjoerd van Tuinen -- A letter on Überhumanismus : beyond posthumanism and transhumanism / Eduardo Mendieta -- The coming-to-the-world of the human animal / Marie-Eve Morin -- A public intellectual / Jean-Pierre Couture -- The language of give and take : Sloterdijk's stylistic methods / Wieland Hoban -- Peter Sloterdijk and the philosopher's stone / Nigel Thrift -- Literature in Sloterdijk's philosophy / Efraín Kristal -- The time of the crime of the monstrous : on the philosophical justification of the artificial / Peter Sloterdijk (translated by Wieland Hoban).

Call Number

JFD 15-414

ISBN

• 9780745651354
• 0745651356
• 9780745651361 (pbk.)
• 0745651364 (pbk.)

OCLC

741407902

Title

Sloterdijk now / edited by Stuart Elden.

Imprint

Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Theory now

Theory now.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-202) and index.

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Table of contents

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Elden, Stuart, 1971-

Research Call Number

JFD 15-414