Rage and Time A Psychopolitical Investigation

Name: Rage and Time A Psychopolitical Investigation
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ISBN: 9780231145237

ISBN-10: 0231145233

ISBN-13: 9780231145237

Edition: 2012

Authors: Peter Sloterdijk, Mario Wenning

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While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that, following Plato, contains spirit, pride, and indignation. Rather, Christianity and psychoanalysis have promoted mutual understanding to overcome conflict. Through unique examples, Peter Sloterdijk, the preeminent posthumanist, argues exactly the opposite, showing how the history of Western civilization can be read as a suppression and return of rage.By way of reinterpreting the Iliad, Alexandre Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo, and recent Islamic…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely read German intellectuals writing today. His 1983 publication of Critique of Cynical Reason (published in English in 1988) became the best-selling German book of philosophy since World War II. He became president of the State Academy of Design at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe in 2001. He has been cohost of a discussion program, Das Philosophische Quartett (Philosophical Quartet) on German television since 2002.