Out of the World

by Peter Sloterdijk

Book Overview

In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world.

Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned over the course of technological and social history. His subject here is the "world-alien" (Weltfremdheit) in man that was formerly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503639002
• ISBN13: 9781503639003
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"