TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sloterdijk,Peter
TI  - Spheres
T2  - Semiotext(e) foreign agents series
SN  - 9781584351047
PY  - 2011///]-[2016]
CY  - Los Angeles, CA
PB  - Semiotext(e)
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - Self (Philosophy)
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; volume 1; Bubbles : microspherology -; volume 2; Globes : macrospherology -; volume 3; Foams : plural spherology
N2  - 'An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and Time. Rejecting the century's predominant philosophical focus on temporality, Sloterdijk, a self-described'student of the air,' reinterprets the history of Western metaphysics as an inherently spatial and immunological project, from the discovery of self (bubble) to the exploration of world (globe) to the poetics of plurality (foam). Exploring macro- and micro-space from the Greek agora to the contemporary urban apartment, Sloterdijk is able to synthesize, with immense erudition, the spatial theories of Aristotle, RenDescartes, Gaston Bachelard, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille into a morphology of shared, or multipolar, dwelling-identifying the question of being as one bound up with the aerial technology of architectonics and anthropogenesis.'-- --
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