Stress and Freedom

by Peter Sloterdijk

Book Overview

In 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. Through a highly original reading of Rousseau?s late Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Sloterdijk shows that, for Rousseau, the modern subject emerges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745699286
• ISBN13: 9780745699288
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.6"