Description
Book SynopsisIn this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in response to a form of anxiety or stress.
Trade Review"In this essay on the meaning of freedom today Peter Sloterdijk offers a stunning account of our post-modern predicaments. He writes as ever with polemical verve and great wit, tracing an aberrant freedom from the dissidence of Rousseau�s figure of the solitary walker to the existential principles of Beckett�s neglected first play Eleutheria. The result is an impassioned tour de force in defence of freedom and a call for a renewed ethic of liberality and generosity. This is a must read."
Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick
Table of Contents
- Large-Scale Political Bodies as Stress Communes
- Lucretia�s Revolt, Rousseau�s Retreat
- Stress and Freedom
- The Reaction of the Real
- On the Source of Committed Freedom
