What Happened in the Twentieth Century?: Towards a Critique of Extremist Reason

by Peter Sloterdijk

Book Overview

When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian regimes and terrible atrocities like the Holocaust - "the age of extremes," to use Hobsbawm's famous phrase. But in this new book, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150951838X
• ISBN13: 9781509518388
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"