Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 23:11:53 -0400 From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.org> Subject: Re: [Sloterdijk] Fw: Sv: SLOTERDIJK REVISITED I find all these other works of Sloterdijk you mention highly unappealing. I guess I can't trust anybody these days. I read Sloterdijk's "The Operable Man: On the Ethical State of the Gene Technology", which I pulled from the web. I have some blistering remarks about this Heideggerian drivel to make on the Sloterdijk list. At 10:54 AM 08/10/2000 +0200, Wouter Kusters wrote: >His major other works are > >Eurotaoismus, according to the back cover "In Eurotaoismus Sloterdijk tries to find an answer how it comes that what we do not want, still happens. He tries to come to a new critical theory, which is more penetrating than the the critical theories of Marx and the Frankfurter Schule. On his own imaginative and sometimes ironic manner he analyses our time and tries to formulate an adequate attitude to dynamics and catastrophe." In which he finally failed, I remember my conclusion was. He elaborates in this book much on the (Heidegger-stylish?) connections between motion, mobility, movements, auto-mobility and so on, but does not come much further than a call for "slow down". (though that may be enough). > >Weltfremdheit; which is a quite heterogeneous bundle of essays on quite diverging themes, however all revolving around the theme of man who is thrown into the world, and for whom there is no obvious escape or hiding-place. Here the thinking is more heideggerian, I guess, but conretized in actual situations, like "what does drugs use mean? What can we do when we have completely finished our psychoanalysis, and only the death-drive has left? In what sense does philosophy incorporate the sleep/wake-rhythms? Recommended > >Selbstversuch -also translated in French BTW-; this is a book-long interview with Carlos Oliveira, and is focused on modern man in the nineties. It is about consumerism, mass media, "what will we *do* when the revolution has finished?", modern religion, and so on. Recommended, especially to get a quick insight into the various themes of Sloterdijk. Here his style is most loose, satirical and grasping. > > >Zur Welt kommen, zur Sprache kommen; an essay on Heidegger's "Being-thrown" into the world, but dramatised and temporalized in the actual "coming-into-existence" of children. It is about the both ontogenetic and phylogenetic insufficiency of memory; it elaborates on Cioran, and it stresses language as the constitution of any community. > >Sphären 1 und Sphären 2, two large works on the historical development of community, with as general lead the fate of the Globus-metaphor, from the Greeks, through the Medieval times, to modern times. > >In addition to the books you mentioned these are his most important works. Furthermore he has written some smaller essays, e.g., this modern essay on the fate of humanism through the eyes of Plato, Nietzsche and Heidegger, for which he was severely attacked in the German public opinion. For a full list of his works, take a look at www.amazon.de > >BTW, if you read no German, follow the links on the website http://www.egroups.com/links/Sloterdijk where I put also some links to English translations of Sloterdijkialia. > >Wouter Kusters --------------------------------------------------------------- Check out Ralph Dumain's "The Autodidact Project": <http://home.thirdage.com/education/ralphdavid> Regular visitors can see what's new on the site at: <http://home.thirdage.com/education/ralphdavid/whatnew.html> "Nature has no outline but imagination has." -- William Blake
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