Premises
I. The Modern Age as Mobilization
1. The Mobilization of the Planet from the Spirit of
Self-Intensification
2. Sketches towards a General Outline of a Critique of Political
Kinetics
3. The Prospect of an Asian Renaissance: Towards a Theory of the
Ancient
II. The Other Change
On the Philosophical Situation of Alternative Movements
1. Panicked Culture—Or: How much catastrophe does a person
need?
2. The First Alternative: Metaphysics
3. The Second Alternative: Poeisis
III. Eurotaoism?
1. Nothingness and Historical Consciousness – A Note on the World
History of Life Fatigue
2. The Miscarried Animal and the Self-Birth of the Subject
3. Eurotaoism
IV. The Fundamental and the Urgent – or: The Tao of
Politics
Also a contribution to the answer as to why a credible policy
currently does not exist
1. Dimensions of the Gap in Credibility
2. The Voting Voice and the Body— or: How politics takes part in
the crisis of a metaphysics of embodiment
3. From an Ethics of Principle to an Ethos of the Urgent
V. Paris Aphorisms on Rationality
1. All that is right
2. Diplomats as Thinkers in Meager Times
3. Low Theory
4. La chose la mieux partagée du monde
5. Geometry as Finesse
6. Unconcealment
7. Of the foolishness to not be an animal
8. Invent yourselves
VI. After Modernity
1. The Age of the Epilogue
2. The Interim – or: The Birth of History from the Spirit of
Postponement
3.Truth und Symbiosis: On the Geological Abolition of World
History
4. For an Ontology of Still-Being
Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design. He is one of the most influential philosophers writing today and is the author of many books including The Critique of Cynical Reason, In the World Interior of Capital, Spheres, You Must Change Your Life and What Happened in the 20th Century?
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