The Terrible Children of Modernity : An Antigenealogical Experiment.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sloterdijk, Peter.

Contributor:

• Berghof, Oliver.
• Kristal, Efraín.

Series:

• The Wellek Library Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Nihilism.
• Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The acclaimed philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a magisterial and profound investigation into the vicissitudes of historical change and the nature of modernity.

Contents:

• Intro
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: On Sloterdijk's Terrible, Antigenealogical Children of Modernity, by Efraín Kristal
• Translator's Introduction
• Prefatory Remark: On Inheritance, Sin, and Modernity
• 1. The Permanent Flood: On a Witticism by Madame de Pompadour
• 2. Existence in Hiatus, or: The Modern Question-Triangle: De Maistre-Chernyshevsky-Nietzsche
• 3. This Disturbing Surplus of Reality: Anticipatory Remarks on the Process of Civilization After the Rift
• 4. Leçons d'Histoire: Seven Episodes from the History of the Drift Into the Unfathomable: 1793 to 1944/1971
• 5. The Super-Id: Of the Stuff That Successions Are Made Of
• 6. The Great Release
• Prospects: In the Delta
• Index.

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ISBN:

0-231-55643-8

OCLC:

1507700973