Out of the World

Out of the World

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Sloterdijk, Peter
Stanford University Press
EAN: 9781503639010
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In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world.Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned over the course of technological and social history. His subject here is the &quote;world-alien&quote; (Weltfremdheit) in man that was formerly institutionalized in religions, but is increasingly dealt with in modern times through practices of psychotherapy. Originally written in 1993, this almost clairvoyant work examines how humans seek escape from the world in cross-cultural and historical context, up to the mania and world-escapism of our cybernetic network culture. Chapters delve into artificial habitats and forms of intoxication, from early Christian desert monks to pharmaco-theology through psychedelics. In classic form, Sloterdijk recalibrates and reinvents concepts from the ancient Greeks to Heidegger to develop an astonishingly contemporary philosophical anthropology.
EAN 9781503639010
ISBN 1503639010
Binding Ebook
Publisher Stanford University Press
Publication date May 7, 2024
Pages 246
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Sloterdijk, Peter
Translators Dansereau, Corey A.; Zimmermann, Gill
Series Cultural Memory in the Present