| Description |
1 online resource (513 pages) |
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Cover; Copyright; Copyright; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION On the Anthropotechnic Turn; The Planet of the Practising; 1 THE COMMAND FROM THE STONE; 2 REMOTE VIEW OF THEASCETIC PLANET; 3 ONLY CRIPPLES WILL SURVIVE; 4 LAST HUNGER ART; 5 PARISIAN BUDDHISM; TRANSITION RELIGIONS DO NOT EXIST:; I The Conquest of the Improbable For an Acrobatic Ethics; PROGRAMME; 1 HEIGHT PSYCHOLOGY; 2 'CULTURE IS A MONASTIC RULE'; 3 SLEEPLESS IN EPHESUS; 4 HABITUS AND INERTIA; 5 CUR HOMO ARTISTA; II Exaggeration Procedures; BACKDROP Retreats into Unusualness; 6 FIRST ECCENTRICITY; 7 THE COMPLETE AND THE INCOMPLETE |
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8 MASTER GAMES9 CHANGE OF TRAINER AND REVOLUTION; III The Exercises of the Moderns; PROSPECT The Re-Secularization of the Withdrawn Subject; 10 ART WITH HUMANS; 11 IN THE AUTO-OPERATIVELY CURVED SPACE; 12 EXERCISES AND MISEXERCISES; RETROSPECTIVE; OUTLOOK The Absolute Imperative; NOTES; INDEX |
| Summary |
In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke formulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentieth century in the imperative 'You must change your life'. In making his case for the expansion of the prac |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, German -- 20th century.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Philosophy, German
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Humanist philosophy.
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Social & political philosophy.
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Sociology.
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Sociology: family & relationships.
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Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hoban, Wieland.
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| ISBN |
9780745692975 |
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0745692974 |
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