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You Must Change Your Life
Peter Sloterdijk
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Paperback. In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 227 x 38. Weight in Grams: 770.
In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke formulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentieth century in the imperative 'You must change your life'.
In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke formulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentieth century in the imperative 'You must change your life'.
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It is those humans who engage expressly in practice that embody this mode of existence most clearly: farmers, workers, warriors, writers, yogis, rhetoricians, musicians or models. By examining their training plans and peak performances, this book offers a panorama of exercises that are necessary to be, and remain, a human being.
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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745649221
SKU
V9780745649221
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About Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design and the author of many works including Critique of Cynical Reason.
Reviews for You Must Change Your Life
"Breathtaking.... A superb and wide-ranging analysis of those moderns who have refused to be pampered or to dwell in capitalist decadence." —The Guardian "Make(s) it possible to begin to come to grips with Sloterdijk as a stirring and eclectic thinker, who addresses himself boldly to the most important problems of our age." —New Republic "A tour ... Read more