Out of the world /
"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 develops a theory of consciousness as a me...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Cultural memory in the present.
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| Summary: | "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 develops a theory of consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned in the course of technological and social history. His subject here is the "world-alien" 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 the artificial habitats and forms of intoxication we develop, 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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Translated form the German. "Originally published in German in 1993 under the title Weltfremdheit." |
| Physical Description: | xii, 229 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781503633292 1503633292 9781503639003 1503639002 |