Description
Book SynopsisPeter Sloterdijk is an internationally renowned philosopher and thinker whose work is now seen as increasingly relevant to our contemporary world situation and the multiple crises that punctuate it, including those within ethical, political, economic, technological, and ecological realms.
This volume focuses upon one of his central ideas, anthropotechnics. Broadly speaking, anthropotechnics refers to the technological constitution of the human as its fundamental mode of existence, which is characterized by the ability to create dwelling places that immunize' human beings from exterior threats while at the same time instituting practices and exercises that call on humanity to transcend itself ascetically'. The essays included in this volume enter a critical dialogue with Sloterdijk and his many philosophical interlocutors in order to interrogate the many implications of anthropotechnics in relation to some of the most pressing issues of our time, including and especially the q
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction: Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics 1. Alone with Oneself: Solitude as Cultural Technique 2. Anthropotechnics and the Absolute Imperative 3. Of an Enlightenment-conservative Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy 4. Specters of Religion: Sloterdijk, Immunology, and the Crisis of Immanence 5. Sartre and Sloterdijk: The Ethical Imperative. You Must Change Your Life 6. Ascetic Worlds: Notes on Politics and Technologies of the Self after Peter Sloterdijk 7. The Limits of the Spheres: Otherness and Solipsism in Peter Sloterdijk’s Philosophy 8. Anthropotechnical Practising in the Foam-world 9. Staying with the Darkness: Peter Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics for the Digital Age 10. The Unknown Quantity: Sleep as a Trope in Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics Untitled (Negative Exercises)
