The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice by Peter Sloterdijk
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 120
- Publication Date
- 2012-10-02
- Book Title
- The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice
- ISBN
- 9780231158718
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231158718
ISBN-13
9780231158718
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117285979
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Publication Name
Art of Philosophy : Wisdom As a Practice
Language
English
Subject
Movements / Deconstruction, General, Movements / Phenomenology
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0 in
Item Weight
5.9 Oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-001986
Reviews
I am unaware of any other writer who so successfully merges creative rethinking of the philosophical and religious past. In this respect, I think Sloterdijk's work represents for me something like a gold standard... The text is humerous, provocative, and deeply insightful., A very provocative, historically penetrating, and paradigm-changing analysis of both modern and postmodern thought, which may be considered one of Peter Sloterdijk's most brilliant contributions to date to what has come to be called 'public philosophy.' This translation is vigorous and engaging and captures in different contexts the ramifications and rhetorical force of Sloterdijk's original German.
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
100
Table Of Content
Translator's Note Introduction: Theory as a Form of the Life of Practice 1. Theory and Asceticism 2. The observer has come: The Creation of Persons Fit for Epoché 3. Theory and Suspended Animation and Its Metamorphoses 4. Cognitive Modernism: The Assassination Attempts on the Neutral Observer Name index
Synopsis
In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life , Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of sophisticated thought. Infused with humor and provocative insight, The Art of Philosophy further integrates philosophy and human existence, richly detailing the foundations of this relationship and its transformative role in making the postmodern self. Sloterdijk begins with Plato's description of Socrates, whose internal monologues were so absorbing they often rooted the philosopher in place. The original academy, Sloterdijk argues, taught scholars to lose themselves in thought, and today's universities continue this tradition by offering scope for Plato's "accommodations for absences." By training scholars to practice thinking as an occupation transcending daily time and space, universities create the environment in which thought makes wisdom possible. Traversing the history of asceticism, the concept of suspended animation, and the theory of the neutral observer, Sloterdijk traces the evolution of philosophical practice from ancient times to today, showing how scholars can remain true to the tradition of "the examined life" even when the temporal dimension no longer corresponds to the eternal. Building on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Arendt, and other practitioners of the life of theory, Sloterdijk launches a posthumanist defense of philosophical inquiry and its everyday, therapeutic value.
LC Classification Number
B67.S56613 2012
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