What Happened in the Twentieth Century? : Towards a Critique of Extremist Reason.
| Author/creator | Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Newark : Polity Press, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource (187 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cover; Copyright; 1 The Anthropocene -- A Stage in the Process on the Margins of the Earth's History?; 1.1 Weightless Humanity; 1.2 Doctrines of Ages of the World; 1.3 Modern Virtuous Circles; 1.4 Crisis of Severe Externalization; 1.5 Ignorance Management; 1.6 "We are on a mission"; 1.7 "The Power of the Body"; 1.8 Politics for the Earth; Notes; 2 From the Domestication of the Human Being to the Civilizing of Cultures: Answering the Question of Whether Humanity is Capable of Taming Itself; 2.1 Pastoral Metaphysics: The Discovery of the Problem ofxs Domestication. |
| Contents | 2.2 Beyond Taming: From Pedagogy to the Discovery of Neoteny and Back Again; 2.3 Naive Pacifism as the Refusal of Cooperation in Cultural Limit Situations; 2.4 Maximal Stress Cooperation in Cultural Groups; 2.5 The Culture of Taming the Wild Animal; 2.6 The Disarming of the Population Bomb; Notes; 3 The Ocean Experiment: From Nautical Globalization to a General Ecology; 3.1 Globalization as a Maritime Experiment; 3.2 The Experimental Spirit and the Externalization of Side Effects; 3.3 Limits of Externalization, or a New Labor of the Argonauts; Notes. |
| Contents | 4 The Synchronized World: Philosophical Aspects of Globalization; 5 What Happened in the 20th Century?: Toward a Critique of Extremist Reason; 5.1 The Apocalypse of the Real: Toward a Logic of Extremism; 5.2 Revaluation of all Values: The Principle of Abundance; 5.3 Beyond Expensive and Free: In Favor of a New Alliance with the Worker of Nature; Notes; 6 The Thinker in the Haunted Castle: On Derrida's Interpretation of Dreams; Notes; 7 Deep Observation: Toward a Philosophy of the Space Station; Notes; 8 The Persistent Renaissance: The Italian Novella and News of Modernity; Notes. |
| Contents | 9 Heidegger's Politics: Postponing the End of History; 9.1 Boredom and the Authentic Collective; 9.2 Dostoyevsky, Heidegger, and Kojève: Projecting the End of History; 9.3 Affirmation of Danger: Back to History!; Notes; 10 Odysseus the Sophist: On the Birth of Philosophy from the Spirit of Travel Stress; 10.1 Polytropos -- The Man of Twists and Turns; 10.2 Polymētis -- Someone Who is Never at a Loss; 10.3 Polytlas Dios Odysseus -- Odysseus, a Man Who Endured Much; 10.4 Polymēchanos -- The Versatile Teacher of How Not to Be Helpless; Notes; 11 Almost Sacred Text: Essay on the Constitution. |
| Contents | 11.1 The Moment of the Constitution; 11.2 The Generation of the Democratic Sublime; Notes; 12 The Other Logos, or the Reason of Cunning: On the Intellectual History of the Indirect; 12.1 The Normalization of the Logos; 12.2 Divine Cunning, Philosophical Cunning; 12.3 The Outwitting of Human Reason; 12.4 Outwitting for the Sake of the Outwitted; 12.5 Hegel: The Cunning of Reason; 12.6 Schopenhauer: Cunning of the Will; 12.7 Nature Outwitted: Mechanical Engineering; 12.8 Our Outwitted Fellow Man; Notes; Editorial Note; End User License Agreement. |
| Abstract | When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see' Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian regimes and terrible atrocities like the Holocaust - "the age of extremes," to use Hobsbawm's famous phrase. But in this new book, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the 20th century if we focus on events and ideologies. Rather, in his view, the predominant motif of the 20th century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now. Drawing on his Spheres trilogy, Sloterdijk interprets the actualization of the real in the 20th century as a passion for economic and technological "antigravitation". The rise of consumerism and the easing of the burdens of human life by the constant deployment of new technologies have killed off the kind of radicalism that was rooted in the belief that power would rise from a material base of production. If the 20th century can still inspire us today, it is because the fundamental shift that it brought about opened the way for a critique of extremist reason, a post-Marxist theory of enrichment and a general economy of energy resources based on excess and dissipation. While developing his highly original interpretation of the 20th century, Sloterdijk also addresses a series of related topics including the meaning of the Anthropocene, the domestication of humans and the significance of the sea. The volume also includes major new pieces on Derrida and on Heidegger's politics. This work, by one of the most original thinkers today will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as anyone interested in philosophy and critical theory. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Sloterdijk, Peter. What Happened in the Twentieth Century? : Towards a Critique of Extremist Reason. Newark : Polity Press, ©2018 9781509518371 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781509518418 |
| ISBN | 150951841X |
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