Περιγραφή
All history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion.--from Globes In Globes -- the second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated magnum opus Spheres trilogy -- the author attempts nothing less than to uncover the philosophical foundations of the political history -- the history of humanity -- of the last two thousand years. The first, well-received volume of the author's Spheres trilogy, Bubbles, dealt with microspheres: the fact that individuals, from the fetal stage to childhood, are never alone, because they always incorporate the Other into themselves and align themselves with it. With Globes, Sloterdijk opens up a history of the political world using the morphological models of the orb and the globe, and argues that all previous statements about globalization have suffered from shortsightedness. For him, globalization begins with the ancient Greeks, who represented the whole world through the shape of the orb. With the discovery of America and the first circumnavigations of the earth, the orb was replaced by the globe. This second globalization is currently giving way to the third, which we are living through today, as the general virtuality of all conditions leads to a growing spatial crisis. Peter Sloterdijk tells here the true story of globalization: from the geometrization of the sky in Plato and Aristotle to the circumnavigation of the last orb -- the earth -- by ships, capital, and signals. (From the publisher) + Περιεχόμενα Prologue: Intense Idyll Introduction: Geometry in the Monstrous The Project of Metaphysical Globalization The Atlas The Parmenidean Moment Carrying God The Morphological Gospel and Its Fate Access: Anthropic Climate Dawn of Long-Distance Closeness The Thanatological Space, Paranoia and the Peace of the Realm Vascular Memories On the Reason for Solidarity in Its Inclusive Form Arks, City Walls, World Boundaries, Immune Systems The Ontology of the Walled Space Excursus 1: Dying Later in the Amphitheater On Postponement, the Roman Way Excursus 2: Merdocracy The Immune Paradox of Settled Cultures The Ontological Proof of the Orb Excursus 3: Autocoprophagia On Platonic Recycling Excursus 4: Pantheon The Theory of the Dome Deus sive sphaera, Or: The Exploding Universal One Excursus 5: On the Meaning of the Unspoken Statement "The Orb Is Dead" Anti-Spheres Explorations in the Infernal Space Parenthesis: On Depression As a Crisis of Extension How the Spheric Center Has Long-Distance Effects through the Pure Medium On the Metaphysics of Telecommunication Excursus 6: The De-crowning of Europe An Anecdote about the Tiara The Last Orb On a Philosophical History of Terrestrial Globalization Transition: Air Conditioning Notes Photographic Credits +