Peter Sloterdijk's "World-Framed" explores humanity's tendency to reject the world, theorizing consciousness as a medium tuned and retuned over history. It examines how humans seek escape from the world in cross-cultural and historical context, up to the mania and world-escapism of our cybernetic network culture.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 07 May 2024
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Peter Sloterdijk's "The World-Fremdheit in Man" - A Cross-Cultural and Transdisciplinary Meditation on Humanity's Tendency to Refuse the World

Peter Sloterdijk's "The World-Fremdheit in Man" is a groundbreaking work that explores the human tendency to reject the world. Published in 1993, this seminal text theorizes consciousness as a medium that is shaped and reshaped by technological and social history. Sloterdijk's primary focus is on the world-alien (Weltfremdheit) in man, which was historically institutionalized in religions but is now increasingly addressed through psychotherapy practices. The book examines how humans seek escape from the world in cross-cultural and historical contexts, culminating in the mania and world-escapism of our cybernetic network culture. Through chapters that delve into artificial habitats and forms of intoxication, from early Christian desert monks to pharmaco-theology through psychedelics, Sloterdijk recalibrates and reinvents concepts from ancient Greeks to Heidegger, creating an astonishingly contemporary philosophical anthropology.

Weight: 368g
Dimension: 151 x 228 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781503639003