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Infinite mobilization : towards a critique of political kinetics / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Sandra Berjan.

Van Pelt Library JA74.5 .S5813 2020
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947- author.
Contributor:
Berjan, Sandra, translator.
Standardized Title:
Eurotaoismus. English
Language:
English
German
Subjects (All):
Political psychology--History--20th century.
Political psychology.
Political sociology.
Civilization.
History.
Europe--Politics and government--20th century.
Europe.
Politics and government.
Europe--Civilization--History.
Physical Description:
xi, 161 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
English edition.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020.
Summary:
"One of the world's leading philosophers shows how our preoccupation with motion and change is a defining feature of our modern, Western way of thinking"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
1 The Modern Age as Mobilization p. 1
The Mobilization of the Planet from the Spirit of Self-Intensification p. 5
Sketches towards an Outline of a Critique of Political Kinetics p. 14
The Prospect of an Asian Renaissance: Towards a Theory of the Ancient p. 23
2 The Other Change: On the Philosophical Situation of Alternative Movements p. 30
Panicked Culture - or: How Much Catastrophe Does a Person Need? p. 32
The First Alternative: Metaphysics p. 42
The Second Alternative: Poeisis p. 50
3 Eurotaoism? p. 59
Nothingness and Historical Consciousness: A Note on the World History of Life Fatigue p. 59
The Miscarried Animal and the Self-Birth of the Subject p. 66
Eurotaoism p. 86
4 The Fundamental and the Urgent - or: The Tao of Politics p. 87
Also a contribution to the answer as to why a credible policy currently does not exist p. 87
Dimensions of the Credibility Gap p. 92
The Voting Voice and the Body - or: How Politics Participates in the Crisis of Embodiment Metaphysics p. 97
From an Ethics of Principle to an Ethos of the Urgent p. 102
5 Paris Aphorisms on Rationality p. 107
All That is Right p. 107
Diplomats as Thinkers in Destitute Times p. 109
Low Theory p. 111
La chose la mieux partagée du monde p. 113
Geometry as Finesse p. 116
Unconcealment and Tolerability p. 117
Of the Foolishness to Not be an Animal p. 119
Invent Yourself! p. 120
6 After Modernity p. 122
The Age of the Epilogue p. 122
The Interim - or: The Birth of History from the Spirit of Postponement p. 127
Truth and Symbiosis: On the Geological Sublation of World History p. 133
For an Ontology of Still-Being p. 148.
Notes:
"First published in German as Eurotaoismus: Zur Kritik der politischen Kinetik, Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 1989."
Includes bibliographical references.
Other Format:
Online version: Sloterdijk, Peter, Infinite mobilization
ISBN:
9781509518470
1509518479
9781509518487
1509518487
OCLC:
1158508207

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