Spheres / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.

By:

Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Semiotext(e) foreign agents seriesPublisher: Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e), 2014Description: 1019p. illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9781584351047 (hardback : v. 1)
9781584351603 (hardback : v. 2)
9781584351870 (hardback : v. 3)

Uniform titles:

Sphären. English

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Incomplete contents:

volume 1. Bubbles : microspherology -- volume 2. Globes : macrospherology -- volume 3. Foams : plural spherology.

Summary: "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, Gaston Bachelard, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille into a morphology of shared, or multipolar, dwelling-identifying the question of being as one bound up with the aerial technology of architectonics and anthropogenesis."-- -- Source other than Library of Congress.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOK	Ashok Goel Library, Rishihood University General stacks	Rashtram School of Public Leadership	300 SLO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		RU00002480

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volume 1. Bubbles : microspherology -- volume 2. Globes : macrospherology -- volume 3. Foams : plural spherology.

"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, Gaston Bachelard, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille into a morphology of shared, or multipolar, dwelling-identifying the question of being as one bound up with the aerial technology of architectonics and anthropogenesis."-- -- Source other than Library of Congress.

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