Sloterdijk

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6380-7
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Key Contemporary Thinkers

This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual.

Sloterdijk, in the tradition of Nietzsche and Heine, is an iconoclast who uses humour and biting critique to challenge many of modernity?s sacred thinkers, from Kant to Heidegger, in the process radically reinterpreting the canon of Western philosophy. In this unique textbook, leading Sloterdijk expert Jean-Pierre Couture explains in accessible language Sloterdijk?s exceptional contribution, breaking his thought down into five key approaches: psychopolitics, anthropotechnics, spherology, controversy, and therapeutics. Sloterdijk?s frequent public controversies, with supporters of Habermas and the Frankfurt school in particular, are assessed and their significance for current philosophical debates explained.

This fascinating book will be an essential companion for those interested in the hybrid aesthetics of thought situated at the crossroads of art and philosophy. Its up-to-date analyses of Sloterdijk?s recently translated corpus will make it essential reading for all students and scholars of modern European thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Couture, Jean-Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Psychopolitics

Anthropotechnics

Spherology

Controversy

Therapy

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Pierre Couture is Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa