Bubbles Spheres Volume I: Microspherology

Name: Bubbles Spheres Volume I: Microspherology
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ISBN: 9781584351047

ISBN-10: 1584351047

ISBN-13: 9781584351047

Edition: 2011

Authors: Peter Sloterdijk, Wieland Hoban, SylvÃ¨re Lotringer

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An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and Time. Rejecting the century's predominant philosophical focus on temporality, Sloterdijk, a self-described "student of the air," reinterprets the history of Western metaphysics as an inherently spatial and immunological project, from the discovery of self (bubble) to the exploration of world (globe) to the poetics of plurality (foam). Exploring macro- and micro-space from the Greek agora to the contemporary urban apartment, Sloterdijk is able to synthesize, with immense erudition, the spatial theories of Aristotle, René Descartes,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: semiotexte Limited
Publication date: 10/14/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 664
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.25" long x 1.85" tall
Weight: 2.860
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.



Preliminary Note


Introduction: The Allies; or, The Breathed Commune


Preliminary Reflections: Thinking the Interior



Heart Operation; or, On the Eucharistic Excess



Between Faces


On the Appearance of the Interfacial Intimate Sphere



Humans in the Magic Circle


On the Intellectual History of the Fascination with Closeness



Thought Transmission



The Retreat Within the Mother


Groundwork for a Negative Gynecology



Nobjects and Un-Relationships


On the Revision of Psychoanalytical Stage Theory



The Egg Principle


Internalization and Encasement



"In Dasein There Lies an Essential Tendency towards Closeness."


Heidegger's Doctrine of Existential Place



The Primal Companion


Requiem for a Discarded Organ



The Black Plantation


A Note on Trees of Life and Enlivenment Machines



Soul Partitions


Angelsï¿½Twinsï¿½Doubles



Spheric Mourning


On Nobject Loss and the Difficulty of Saying What Is Missing



On the Difference Between an Idiot and an Angef



The Siren Stage


On the First Sonospheric Alliance



Illiterate Truths


A Note on Oral Fundamentalism



Where Lacan Starts to Go Wrong



Closer to Me Than I Am Myself


A Theological Preparation for the Theory of the Shared Inside



Matris in gremio


A Mariological Cricket


Transition: On Ecstatic Immanence


Notes


Photographic Credits