Research Catalog

Title

You must change your life : on anthropotechnics / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.

Author

Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2013.

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Additional Authors

Hoban, Wieland

Description

vi, 503 pages; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Du musst dein Leben ändern. English

Alternative Title

Du musst dein Leben ändern.

Subject

• Philosophical anthropology
• Anthropomorphism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : on the anthropotechnic turn -- The planet of the practising. The command from the stone : Rilke's experience -- Remote view of the ascetic planet : Nietzsche's antiquity project -- Only cripples will survive : Unthan's lesson -- Last hunger art : Kafka's artistes -- Parisian Buddhism : Cioran's exercises -- Transition : religions do not exist : from Pierre de Coubertin to L. Ron Hubbard -- The conquest of the improbable : for an acrobatic ethics. Programme -- Height psychology : the doctrine of upward propagation and the meaning of 'over' -- 'Culture is a monastic rule' : twilight of the life forms, disciplinics -- Sleepless in Ephesus : on the demons of habit and their taming through first theory -- Habitus and inertia : on the base camps of the practising life -- Cur homo artista : on the ease of the impossible -- Exaggeration procedures. Backdrop : retreats into unusualness -- First eccentricity : on the separation of the practising and their soliloquies -- The complete and the incomplete : how the spirit of perfection entangles the practising in stories -- Master games : trainers as guarantors of the art of exaggeration -- Change of trainer and revolution : on conversions and opportunistic turns -- The exercises of the moderns. Prospect : the re-secularization of the withdrawn subject -- Art with humans : in the arsenals of anthropotechnics -- In the auto-operatively curved space : new human beings between anaesthesia and biopolitics -- Exercises and misexercises : the critique of repetition -- Retrospective : from the re-embedding of the subject to the relapse into total care -- Outlook : the absolute imperative.

Call Number

JFE 13-2619

ISBN

• 9780745649214
• 0745649211

OCLC

819732930

Author

Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947- author.

Title

You must change your life : on anthropotechnics / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.

Imprint

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2013.

Edition

English edition.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hoban, Wieland, translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-2619