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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.
- 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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