You must change your life : on anthropotechnics / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.

Author/creator Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-
Other author Hoban, Wieland.
Format Book
EditionEnglish ed.
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2013.
Descriptionvi, 503 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleDu musst dein Leben ändern : über Anthropotechnik. English
Contents The planet of the practising. The command from the stone: Rilke's experience -- Remote view of the ascetic planet: Nietzsche's antiquity project -- Only cripples will survive: Unthan's lesson -- Last hunger art: Kafka's artistes -- Parisian Buddhism : Cioran's exercises -- Transition: religions do not exist: from Pierre de Coubertin to L. Ron Hubbard -- The conquest of the improbable: for an acrobatic ethics. Programme -- Height psychology: the doctrine of upward propagation and the meaning of "over" -- "Culture is a monastic rule": twilight of the life forms, disciplinics -- Sleepless in Ephesus: on the demons of habit and their taming through first theory -- Habitus and inertia: on the base camps of the practising life -- Cur homo artista: on the ease of the impossible -- Exaggeration procedures. Backdrop: retreats into unusualness -- First eccentricity: on the separation of the practising and their soliloquies -- The complete and the incomplete : how the spirit of perfection entangles the practising in stories -- Master games : trainers as guarantors of the art of exaggeration -- Change of trainer and revolution: on conversions and opportunistic turns -- The exercises of the moderns. Prospect: the re-secularization of the withdrawn subject -- Art with humans: in the arsenals of anthropotechnics -- In the auto-operatively curved space: new human beings between anaesthesia and biopolitics -- Exercises and misexercises: the critique of repetition -- Retrospective: from the re-embedding of the subject to the relapse into total care -- Outlook: the absolute imperative.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9780745649214
ISBN0745649211

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