Bubbles
Spheres Volume I: Microspherology
$59.75
- Hardcover
664 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2011
Summary
The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity’s engagement with intimate spaces.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 immu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584351047 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584351047 |
| Author: | Peter Sloterdijk, Wieland Hoban |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 664 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 1.18kg |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 40mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
…Bubbles is as much an essential guide to modern space as it is a philosophical epic about dwelling and thinking.
—Brian Dillon, The Guardian[Bubbles] is perhaps best read as a long philosophical poem, powerfully expressive of the modern experience of disorientation and loneliness, wrenching itself into bizarre shapes in its imperfect attempt to conjure an ancient wholeness.
—Adam Kirsch, Times Literary SupplementAbout The Author
Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely read German intellectuals writing today. His 1983 publication of Critique of Cynical Reason (published in English in 1988) became the best-selling German book of philosophy since World War II. He became president of the State Academy of Design at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe in 2001. He has been cohost of a discussion program, Das Philosophische Quartett (Philosophical Quartet) on German television since 2002.
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