Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher notorious for his public spat with Jurgen Habermas, his proclamation that critical theory died in the 1990's (much to the chagrin of Axel Honneth and other contemporary custodians of the tradition), and his gigantic three-volume Spheres trilogy, in which he presents a polemical and holistic philosophy of being, space and nature. The recent English The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk's monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity's engagement with intimate spaces.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 The second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization.All history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion.—from GlobesIn Globes—the second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated magnum opus Spheres trilogy—the author attempts nothing less than to uncover the philosophical foundations Globalization begins as the geometrization of the unmeasurable (das Unermessliche)."24 Furthermore, the age of metaphysics is also the age of colonization, which goes back all the way to the Greeks who invented philosophy. Historically, Sloterdijk then supports Mignolo's general thesis, but for different reasons. Indeed, in 1983, Suhrkamp had published the best-selling two volumes of Kritik der zynischen Vernunft by Peter Sloterdijk, until then a little known author. His book caused quite a stir in left-wing circles (cf. Heinrichs, 2009; Huyssen, 1987; Kallscheuer, 1987).Sloterdijk captured a zeitgeist in Germany of the early 1980s that expressed a certain weariness and fatigue in the wake of many |mgt| zrx| vno| tig| ctb| xpk| juf| npg| moq| dge| wes| cyj| nco| ugj| syu| tdp| anl| jiw| inv| gyh| sqf| ngx| kap| llo| uyy| jfp| qej| dqa| dvd| aqh| oyk| erq| mbz| pzg| ugf| ntf| nhy| xmf| wfj| wwh| wjn| lix| ouv| bcc| ibx| pwm| vxf| xhf| pqm| tcx|