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Peter Sloterdijk - Stress and Freedom - 9780745699288 - V9780745699288
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Stress and Freedom

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Description for Stress and Freedom Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 166.

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 as a subject free of all stress, unburdened by the cares of the world. Most of modern philosophy, and above all German Idealism, is an attempt ... Read more

This important text, in which Sloterdijk develops his account of freedom and the modern subject, will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy and the humanities and to anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and critical theory.

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Product Details

Publisher
Polity
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745699288
SKU
V9780745699288
Shipping Time
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About Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design

Reviews for Stress and Freedom
"In this essay on the meaning of freedom today Peter Sloterdijk offers a stunning account of our post-modern predicaments. He writes as ever with polemical verve and great wit, tracing an aberrant freedom from the dissidence of Rousseau�s figure of the solitary walker to the existential principles of Beckett�s neglected first play Eleutheria. The result is an impassioned tour de ... Read more

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