You must change your life : on anthropotechnics / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-

Contributor:

Hoban, Wieland

Standardized Title:

Du musst dein Leben ändern : über Anthropotechnik. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Anthropomorphism.

Physical Description:

vi, 503 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2013.

Contents:

The Planet of the Practising

1 The Command from the Stone: Rilke's Experience 19

2 Remote View of the Ascetic Planet: Nietzsche's Antiquity Project 29

3 Only Cripples Will Survive: Unthan's Lesson 40

4 Last Hunger Art: Kafka's Artistes 61

5 Parisian Buddhism: Cioran's Exercises 73

Transition: Religions Do Not Exist: From Pierre de Coubertin to L. Ron Hubbard 83

I The Conquest of the Improbable: For an Acrobatic Ethics

Programme 109

1 Height Psychology: The Doctrine of Upward Propagation and the Meaning of 'Over' 111

2 'Culture Is a Monastic Rule': Twilight of the Life Forms, Disciplines 131

3 Sleepless in Ephesus: On the Demons of Habit and Their Taming Through First Theory 160

4 Habitus and Inertia: On the Base Camps of the Practising Life 175

5 Cur Homo Artista: On the Ease of the Impossible 190

II Exaggeration Procedures

Backdrop: Retreats into Unusualness 211

6 First Eccentricity: On the Separation of the Practising and Their Soliloquies 217

7 The Complete and the Incomplete: How the Spirit of Perfection Entangles the Practising in Stories 243

8 Master Games: Trainers as Guarantors of the Art of Exaggeration 271

9 Change of Trainer and Revolution: On Conversions and Opportunistic Turns 298

III The Exercises of the Moderns

Prospect: The Re-Secularization of the Withdrawn Subject 315

10 Art with Humans: In the Arsenals of Anthropotechnics 331

11 In the Auto-Operatively Curved Space: New Human Beings Between Anaesthesia and Biopolitics 369

12 Exercises and Misexercises: The Critique of Repetition 404

Retrospective: From the Re-Embedding of the Subject to the Relapse into Total Care 436

Outlook: The Absolute Imperative 442.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745649214

0745649211

OCLC:

819732930