Foams

Foams by Peter Sloterdijk

The final volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the phenomenology of community and its spatial peripheries.

So the One Orb has imploded--now the foams are alive.
--from Foams

Foams completes Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy: his 2,500-page grand narrative retelling of the history of humanity, as related through the anthropological concept of the Sphere. For Sloterdijk, life is a matter of form and, in life, sphere formation and thought are two different labels for the same thing. The trilogy also offers his corrective answer to Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, reformulating it into a lengthy meditation on Being and Space--a shifting of the question of who we are to a more fundamental question of where we are.

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 Bubbles was Sloterdijk's phenomenology of intimacy, and Globes his phenomenology of globalization, Foams 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. Foams is an exploration of capsules, islands, and hothouses that leads to the discovery of the foam city.

The Spheres 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, Foams can be read on its own or in relation to the rest of the trilogy.

Peter Sloterdijk was born in 1947. He studied philosophy, German and History in Munich from 1968 to 1974. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1980, and published a number of articles and books on time diagnosis, cultural and religious philosophy, art theory and psychology. Sloterdijk has been a professor of philosophy and media theory at the Karlsruhe School of Design since 1992. He took charge of the Institute for Cultural Philosophy of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1993. Sloterdijk became the director of the Karlsruhe School of Design in 2001 and has also received a number of awards including the Christian-Kellerer Prize for the future of philosophical thought, and he was named a, Commandeur de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres, by the Republic of France. He also recently received the 2008 Lessing Prize for criticism.

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ISBN 13	9781584351870
ISBN 10	158435187X
Title	Foams
Author	Peter Sloterdijk
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Autonomedia
Year published	2016-08-19
Number of pages	912
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