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Title: Rage and Time
Condition: New
EAN: 9780231145220
ISBN: 9780231145220
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 21/04/2010
Language: German
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Author: Peter Sloterdijk
Translator: Mario Wenning
Contributor: Mario Wenning (Translated by)
Subtitle: A Psychopolitical Investigation
ISBN-10: 0231145225
Description: While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that, following Plato, contains spirit, pride, and indignation. Rather, Christianity and psychoanalysis have promoted mutual understanding to overcome conflict. Through unique examples, Peter Sloterdijk, the preeminent posthumanist, argues exactly the opposite, showing how the history of Western civilization can be read as a suppression and return of rage. By way of reinterpreting the Iliad, Alexandre Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo, and recent Islamic political riots in Paris, Sloterdijk proves the fallacy that rage is an emotion capable of control. Global terrorism and economic frustrations have rendered strong emotions visibly resurgent, and the consequences of violent outbursts will determine international relations for decades to come. To better respond to rage and its complexity, Sloterdijk daringly breaks with entrenched dogma and contructs a new theory for confronting conflict.His approach acknowledges and respects the proper place of rage and channels it into productive political struggle.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Year: 2010

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