You Must Change Your Life
ISBN: 9780745649214 | 0745649211
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 1/22/2013
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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 maki... MORE
- Introduction: On the Anthropotechnic Turn
- The Planet of the Practising
- 1 The Command from the Stone
- Rilke's Experience
- 2 Remote View of the Ascetic Planet
- Nietzsche's Antiquity Project
- 3 Only Cripples Will Survive
- Unthan's Lesson
- 4 Last Hunger Art
- Kafka's Circus Art
- 5 Parisian Buddhism
- Cioran's Exercises
- Transition: Religions Do Not Exist
- From Pierre de Coubertin to L. Ron Hubbard
- I The Conquest of the Improbable
- For a... MORE
- Programme
- 1 Height Psychology
- The Doctrine of Upward Propagation and the Meaning of 'Over'
- 2 'Culture Is a Monastic Rule'
- Twilight of the Life Forms, Disciplinics
- 3 Sleepless in Ephesus
- On the Demons of Habit and Their Taming Through First Theory
- 4 Habitus and Inertia
- On the Base Camps of the Practising Life
- 5 Cur Homo Artista
- On the Ease of the Impossible
- II Exaggeration Procedures
- Backdrop: Retreats into Unusualness
- 6 First Eccentricity
- On the Separation of the Practising and Their Soliloquies
- 7 The Complete and the Incomplete
- How the Spirit of Perfection Entangles the Practising in Stories
- 8 Master Games
- Trainers as Guarantors of the Art of Exaggeration
- 9 Change of Trainer and Revolution
- On Conversions and Opportunistic Turns
- III The Exercises of the Moderns
- Prospect: The Re-Secularization of the Withdrawn Subject
- 10 Art with Humans
- In the Arsenals of Anthropotechnics
- 11 In the Auto-Operatively Curved Space
- New Human Beings Between Anaesthesia and Biopolitics
- 12 Exercises and Misexercises
- The Critique of Repetition
- Retrospective
- From the Re-Embedding of the Subject to the Relapse into Total Care
- Outlook
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.
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