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Sloterdijk begins with Plato's description of Socrates, whose internal monologues were so absorbing they often rooted the philosopher in place. The original academy, Sloterdijk argues, taught scholars to lose themselves in thought, and today's universities continue this tradition by offering scope for Plato's \"accommodations for absences.\" By training scholars to practice thinking as an occupation transcending daily time and space, universities create the environment in which thought makes wisdom possible. Traversing the history of asceticism, the concept of suspended animation, and the theory of the neutral observer, Sloterdijk traces the evolution of philosophical practice from ancient times to today, showing how scholars can remain true to the tradition of \"the examined life\" even when the temporal dimension no longer corresponds to the eternal. Building on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Arendt, and other practitioners of the life of theory, Sloterdijk launches a posthumanist defense of philosophical inquiry and its everyday, therapeutic value.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49521230250257,"sku":"GOR004809379","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000441307409,"sku":"NIN9780231158718","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52630521446673,"sku":"CIN0231158718VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0231158718.jpg?v=1751164712"},{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-mount-sinai-book-peter-sloterdijk-9780745699240","title":"In The Shadow of Mount Sinai","description":"In this short book Peter Sloterdijk clarifies his views on religion and its role in pre-modern and modern societies. 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The trilogy also offers his corrective answer to Martin Heidegger's \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e, reformulating it into a lengthy meditation on Being and Space-a shifting of the question of \u003ci\u003ewho we are\u003c\/i\u003e to a more fundamental question of \u003ci\u003ewhere we are\u003c\/i\u003e.In this final volume, Sloterdijk's \"plural spherology\" moves from the historical perspective on humanity of the preceding two volumes to a philosophical theory of our contemporary era, offering a view of life through a multifocal lens. If \u003ci\u003eBubbles\u003c\/i\u003e was Sloterdijk's phenomenology of intimacy, and \u003ci\u003eGlobes\u003c\/i\u003e his phenomenology of globalization, \u003ci\u003eFoams\u003c\/i\u003e could be described as his phenomenology of spatial plurality- how the bubbles that we form in our duality bind together to form what sociological tradition calls \"society.\" \u003ci\u003eFoams\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of capsules, islands, and hothouses that leads to the discovery of the foam city.The \u003ci\u003eSpheres\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy ultimately presents a theology without a God-a spatial theology that requires no God, whose death therefore need not be of concern.As with the two preceding volumes, \u003ci\u003eFoams\u003c\/i\u003e can be read on its own or in relation to the rest of the trilogy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49527976460561,"sku":"GOR012484842","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733377294609,"sku":"NGR9781584351870","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50983886422289,"sku":"GOR012351554","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51825701126417,"sku":"CIN158435187XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53215223447825,"sku":"GOR014809176","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/158435187X.jpg?v=1751309969"},{"product_id":"neither-sun-nor-death-book-peter-sloterdijk-9781584350910","title":"Neither Sun nor Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA series of dialogues with the most exciting and controversial German philosopher writing today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Sloterdijk first became known in this country for his late 1980s Critique of Cynical Reason, which confronted headlong the enlightened false consciousness of Habermasian critical theory. Two decades later, after spending seven years in India studying Eastern philosophy, he is now attracting renewed interest for his writings on politics and globalization and for his magnum opus Spheres, a three-volume archaeology of the human attempt to dwell within spaces, from womb to globe: Bubbles, 1998; Globes, 1999; Foam, 2004, all forthcoming from Semiotext(e). In \u003ci\u003eNeither Sun nor Death\u003c\/i\u003e, Sloterdijk answers questions posed by German writer Hans-Jurgen Heinrichs, commenting on such issues as technological mutation, development media, communication technologies, and his own intellectual itinerary. Iconoclastic and provocative, alternatively sparkling and bombastic, a child of '68 and a libertarian, Sloterdijk is the most exciting and controversial German philosopher to appear on the world scene since Nietzsche and Heidegger. Like Nietzsche, Sloterdijk remains convinced that contemporary philosophers have to think dangerously and let themselves be kidnapped by contemporary hypercomplexities; they must forsake our present humanist and nationalist world for a wider horizon at once ecological and global. \u003ci\u003eNeither Sun nor Death\u003c\/i\u003e is the best introduction available to Sloterdijk's philosophical theory of globalization. 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The first, well-received volume of the author's \u003ci\u003eSpheres\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, \u003ci\u003eBubbles\u003c\/i\u003e, dealt with microspheres- the fact that individuals, from the fetal stage to childhood, are never alone, because they always incorporate the Other into themselves and align themselves with it. With \u003ci\u003eGlobes\u003c\/i\u003e, Sloterdijk opens up a history of the political world using the morphological models of the orb and the globe, and argues that all previous statements about globalization have suffered from shortsightedness. For him, globalization begins with the ancient Greeks, who represented the whole world through the shape of the orb. With the discovery of America and the first circumnavigations of the earth, the orb was replaced by the globe. 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When Prometheus, according to the myth, brought fire to earth, another crucial input was added. Fire has been used to cook food and harden tools for hundreds of thousands of years. In this sense, it can be said that all history implies the history of the uses of fire.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But whereas trees could only be burnt once, labor and fire shifted with the discovery of underground deposits of coal and oil. Modern humanity, according to Peter Sloterdijk, can be considered a collective of arsonists who set fire to the underground forests and moors. If Prometheus were to return to earth today, he might regret his gift; after all, what looms is nothing less than Ekpyrosis, the demise of the world in fire. 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In this brief but illuminating text, Sloterdijk offers a series of recontextualizations of Derrida's work by exploring the connections between Derrida and seven major thinkers, including Hegel, Freud and Thomas Mann. The leitmotif of this exploration is the role that Egypt and the Egyptian pyramid plays in the philosophical imagination of the West, from the exodus of Moses and the Jews to the conceptualization of the pyramid as the archetype of the cumbersome objects that cannot be taken along by the spirit on its return to itself.   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Sloterdijk also considers several other crucial twentieth-century thinkers who provide some needed contrast for the philosophical physiognomy of Martin Heidegger. A consideration of Niklas Luhmann as a kind of contemporary version of the Devil's Advocate, a provocative critical interpretation of Theodor Adorno's philosophy that focuses on its theological underpinnings and which also includes reflections on the philosophical significance of hyperbole, and a short sketch of the pessimistic thought of Emil Cioran all round out and deepen Sloterdijk's attempts to think with, against, and beyond Heidegger. 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