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In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a p...
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Polity,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English German |
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| Summary: |
In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke formulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentieth century in the imperative 'You must change your life'. In making his case for the expansion of the prac. |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 503 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780745649214 : 0745649211 : |
| Index Number: | B3332 |
| CLC: | B089.3 |
| Call Number: | B089.3/S634 |
| Contents: |
Cover; Copyright; Copyright; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION On the Anthropotechnic Turn; The Planet of the Practising; 1 THE COMMAND FROM THE STONE; 2 REMOTE VIEW OF THEASCETIC PLANET; 3 ONLY CRIPPLES WILL SURVIVE; 4 LAST HUNGER ART; 5 PARISIAN BUDDHISM; TRANSITION RELIGIONS DO NOT EXIST:; I The Conquest of the Improbable For an Acrobatic Ethics; PROGRAMME; 1 HEIGHT PSYCHOLOGY; 2 'CULTURE IS A MONASTIC RULE'; 3 SLEEPLESS IN EPHESUS; 4 HABITUS AND INERTIA; 5 CUR HOMO ARTISTA; II Exaggeration Procedures; BACKDROP Retreats into Unusualness; 6 FIRST ECCENTRICITY; 7 THE COMPLETE AND THE INCOMPLETE 8 MASTER GAMES9 CHANGE OF TRAINER AND REVOLUTION; III The Exercises of the Moderns; PROSPECT The Re-Secularization of the Withdrawn Subject; 10 ART WITH HUMANS; 11 IN THE AUTO-OPERATIVELY CURVED SPACE; 12 EXERCISES AND MISEXERCISES; RETROSPECTIVE; OUTLOOK The Absolute Imperative; NOTES; INDEX |