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You must change your life : on anthropotechnics / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban

Author
Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-
Uniform Title
Du musst dein Leben ändern. English
Published
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Edition
English ed.
Physical Description
vi, 503 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Hoban, Wieland

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Contents
Introduction : on the anthropotechnic turn -- The planet of the practising. The command from the stone : Rilke's experience -- Remote view of the ascetic planet : Nietzsche's antiquity project -- Only cripples will survive : Unthan's lesson -- Last hunger art : Kafka's artistes -- Parisian Buddhism : Cioran's exercises -- Transition : religions do not exist : from Pierre de Coubertin to L. Ron Hubbard -- The conquest of the improbable : for an acrobatic ethics. Programme -- Height psychology : the doctrine of upward propagation and the meaning of 'over' -- 'Culture is a monastic rule' : twilight of the life forms, disciplinics -- Sleepless in Ephesus : on the demons of habit and their taming through first theory -- Habitus and inertia : on the base camps of the practising life -- Cur homo artista : on the ease of the impossible -- Exaggeration procedures. Backdrop : retreats into unusualness -- First eccentricity : on the separation of the practising and their soliloquies -- The complete and the incomplete : how the spirit of perfection entangles the practising in stories -- Master games : trainers as guarantors of the art of exaggeration -- Change of trainer and revolution : on conversions and opportunistic turns -- The exercises of the moderns. Prospect : the re-secularization of the withdrawn subject -- Art with humans : in the arsenals of anthropotechnics -- In the auto-operatively curved space : new human beings between anaesthesia and biopolitics -- Exercises and misexercises : the critique of repetition -- Retrospective : from the re-embedding of the subject to the relapse into total care -- Outlook : the absolute imperative.
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ISBN
9780745649214
0745649211
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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