Out of the World (eBook)

Peter Sloterdijk (Autor)

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2024
246 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3901-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned over the course of technological and social history. His subject here is the "e;world-alien"e; (Weltfremdheit) 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 artificial habitats and forms of intoxication, 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Cultural Memory in the Present
• Übersetzer: Corey A. Dansereau, Gill Zimmermann
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Alienation • Altered States • Depth Psychology • escapism • existential phenomenology • Gnosticism • History of Metaphysics • history of practices • Mania
• ISBN-10: 1-5036-3901-0 / 1503639010
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-3901-0 / 9781503639010