Elden Sloterdijk Now

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-5676-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Polity Theory Now

Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most challenging and contentiousthinkers currently working within the European tradition. This isthe first collection devoted to his work for English-languageaudiences and will act as an introduction to his work, set anagenda for engagement with his ideas, and relate his writings to arange of political, theoretical and practical contexts.
Since his philosophical bestseller Critique of CynicalReason (1983), Sloterdijk has exercised an important influenceover German and other European thought and recently interest in hisdiverse oeuvre has grown considerably. The past few years have seena number of his books translated into English, with many more tocome. The book seeks to do justice to the breadth ofSloterdijk's work throughout his career, orientated aroundthe central topics of cynicism, ressentiment, the posthuman, spaceand world, art and literature, language, social science and hisrole as a public intellectual. Contributors include Babette Babich,Sjoerd van Tuinen, Eduardo Mendieta, Marie-Eve Morin, EfrainKristol, Wieland Hoban, Nigel Thrift, Jean-Pierre Couture, andSloterdijk himself.
An explicitly interdisciplinary project, Sloterdijk Nowis a crucial introduction to the work of this central thinker, inits complexity, variety and notoriety. It is set to spark debateamongst students and scholars across the humanities and socialsciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elden, Stuart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vii
List of Contributors viii
List of Abbreviations xi
1 Worlds, Engagements, Temperaments 1
Stuart Elden
2 Sloterdijk's Cynicism: Diogenes in the Marketplace 17
Babette Babich
3 From Psychopolitics to Cosmopolitics: The Problem of Ressentiment37
Sjoerd van Tuinen
4 A Letter on Überhumanismus: Beyond Posthumanism andTranshumanism 58
Eduardo Mendieta
5 The Coming-to-the-World of the Human Animal 77
Marie-Eve Morin
6 A Public Intellectual 96
Jean-Pierre Couture
7 The Language of Give and Take: Sloterdijk's StylisticMethods 114
Wieland Hoban
8 Peter Sloterdijk and the Philosopher's Stone 133
Nigel Thrift
9 Literature in Sloterdijk's Philosophy 147
Efraín Kristal
10 The Time of the Crime of the Monstrous: On the PhilosophicalJustifi cation of the Artificial 165
Peter Sloterdijk (translated by Wieland Hoban)
Notes 182
Index 203

Über Autor(innen)

Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University.