Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most extraordinary philosophers working today. No Enlightenment truisms remain undisturbed by his joyous and polyphonic investigations into the meaning of the spherical. The appearance of Volume 1, Bubbles, is a major event that will finally allow the English-speaking world to experience the many dimensions of his thinking which is a toolbox for art and architecture. -- Hans Ulrich Obrist Peter Sloterdijk's expansive trilogy Spharen ( Spheres I-III, 1998, 1999, 2004) explores myriad spaces -- from the microsphere of the uterus to the macrosphere of the nation-state -- that are fundamental to the formation of human life but often overlooked by philosophers. At once polemical and holistic in approach, Sloterdijk allows us to come to terms with the ever-retooled systems that structure our lives. -- Hal Foster It is about time that the English-speaking world begin to appreciate what is, without question, the most important work in philosophy of nature to appear since the irruption of the ecological crisis at the forefront of our consciousness and political order. Many naturalists, activists, political scientists, and ecologists have been nibbling at the notion of nature. But Peter Sloterdijk, in this first volume of his giant trilogy, goes much further and deeper since he renews what it is to be thrown xin' the world by totally renewing what it means to talk about the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. It is only if we profit from Sloterdijk's infectious concept of 'envelopes' and 'spheres' that we might at last begin to prepare ourselves for living with and in Gaia instead of against and out of her. -- Bruno Latour
Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely read German intellectuals writing today. His 1983 publication of Critique of Cynical Reason (published in English in 1988) became the best-selling German book of philosophy since World War II. He became president of the State Academy of Design at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe in 2001. He has been cohost of a discussion program, Das Philosophische Quartett (Philosophical Quartet) on German television since 2002.
...Bubbles is as much an essential guide to modern space as it is a
philosophical epic about dwelling and thinking.—Brian Dillon, The
Guardian
[Bubbles] is perhaps best read as a long philosophical poem,
powerfully expressive of the modern experience of disorientation
and loneliness, wrenching itself into bizarre shapes in its
imperfect attempt to conjure an ancient wholeness.—Adam Kirsch,
Times Literary Supplement
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