Globes

Globes by Peter Sloterdijk

The second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization.

All history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion.
--from Globes

In Globes--the second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated magnum opus Spheres trilogy--the author attempts nothing less than to uncover the philosophical foundations of the political history--the history of humanity--of the last two thousand years. The first, well-received volume of the author's Spheres trilogy, Bubbles, 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 Globes, 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. This second globalization is currently giving way to the third, which we are living through today, as the general virtuality of all conditions leads to a growing spatial crisis.

Peter Sloterdijk tells here the true story of globalization: from the geometrization of the sky in Plato and Aristotle to the circumnavigation of the last orb--the earth--by ships, capital, and signals.

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	9781584351603
ISBN 10	1584351608
Title	Globes
Author	Peter Sloterdijk
Series	Globes
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Autonomedia
Year published	2014-10-10
Number of pages	1024
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