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Peter Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations: Conversations and Interviews 1993 - 2012 - 9780745691657 - V9780745691657
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Selected Exaggerations: Conversations and Interviews 1993 - 2012

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Description for Selected Exaggerations: Conversations and Interviews 1993 - 2012 Hardcover. Peter Sloterdijk's reputation as an original thinker of our times has grown steadily since the early 1980s. This volume of over 30 conversations and interviews spanning two decades illuminates the multiple interconnections of his life and work. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .

Peter Sloterdijk’s reputation as one of the most original thinkers of our time has grown steadily since the early 1980s. This volume of over thirty conversations and interviews spanning two decades illuminates the multiple interconnections of his life and work.

In these wide-ranging dialogues Sloterdijk gives his views on a variety of topics, from doping to doxa, design to dogma, media to mobility and the financial crisis to football. Here we encounter Sloterdijk from every angle: as he expounds his ideas on the philosophical tradition and the latest strands of contemporary thought, as he analyses the problems of our age ... Read more

Appealing both to the seasoned reader of Sloterdijk and to the curious newcomer, these dialogues offer fresh insight into the intellectual and political events of recent decades. They also give us glimpses of Sloterdijk’s own life story, from his early passionate love of reading and writing to his journeys in East and West, his commitment to Europe and his acceptance and enjoyment of the role of a public intellectual and philosopher in the twenty-first century. 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745691657
SKU
V9780745691657
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-20

About Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design and the author of many works, including You Must Change Your Life.

Reviews for Selected Exaggerations: Conversations and Interviews 1993 - 2012
'Selected Exaggerations presents a blow-by-blow chronicle of an intellectual journey, one of the most remarkable of our time. In it, we follow Sloterdijk as he comments on his work in progress and current affairs over a twenty-year period. Often mischievous, sometimes maddening, always thought-provoking, Sloterdijk is a force to be reckoned with. With this publication, the English-speaking world finally has ... Read more

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