Sloterdijk The Terrible Children of Modernity

An Antigenealogical Experiment
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-55643-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: The Wellek Library Lectures

The acclaimed philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a magisterial and profound investigation into the vicissitudes of historical change and the nature of modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sloterdijk, Peter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kristal, Efraín

Berghof, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: On Sloterdijk’s Terrible, Antigenealogical Children of Modernity, by Efraín Kristal
Translator’s Introduction
Prefatory Remark: On Inheritance, Sin, and Modernity
1. The Permanent Flood: On a Witticism by Madame de Pompadour
2. Existence in Hiatus, or: The Modern Question—Triangle: De Maistre—Chernyshevsky—Nietzsche
3. This Disturbing Surplus of Reality: Anticipatory Remarks on the Process of Civilization After the Rift
4. Leçons d’Histoire: Seven Episodes from the History of the Drift Into the Unfathomable: 1793 to 1944/1971
5. The Super-Id: Of the Stuff That Successions Are Made Of
6. The Great Release
Prospects: In the Delta
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Sloterdijk is professor emeritus of aesthetics and philosophy at the Institute of Design in Karlsruhe. His numerous books include the best-selling Critique of Cynical Reason, You Must Change Your Life, and the Spheres trilogy. Columbia University Press has also published Sloterdijk’s Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation (2010), The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice (2012), and Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault (2013).

Oliver Berghof is professor of literature and writing studies at California State University, San Marcos.

Efraín Kristal is distinguished professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.