{"product_id":"foams-spheres-volume-iii-plural-spherology-hardcover","title":"Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Sloterdijk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWieland Hoban\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe final volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated \u003ci\u003eSpheres\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, on the phenomenology of community and its spatial peripheries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"So the One Orb has imploded--now the foams are alive.\"\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eFoams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoams \u003c\/i\u003ecompletes Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated \u003ci\u003eSpheres\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy: his 2,500-page \"grand narrative\" retelling of the history of humanity, as related through the anthropological concept of the \"Sphere.\" For Sloterdijk, life is a matter of form and, in life, sphere formation and thought are two different labels for the same thing. The trilogy also offers his corrective answer to Martin Heidegger's \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e, reformulating it into a lengthy meditation on Being and Space--a shifting of the question of \u003ci\u003ewho we are \u003c\/i\u003eto a more fundamental question of \u003ci\u003ewhere we are\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this final volume, Sloterdijk's \"plural spherology\" moves from the historical perspective on humanity of the preceding two volumes to a philosophical theory of our contemporary era, offering a view of life through a multifocal lens. If \u003ci\u003eBubbles\u003c\/i\u003e was Sloterdijk's phenomenology of intimacy, and \u003ci\u003eGlobes\u003c\/i\u003e his phenomenology of globalization, \u003ci\u003eFoams\u003c\/i\u003e could be described as his phenomenology of spatial plurality: how the bubbles that we form in our duality bind together to form what sociological tradition calls \"society.\" \u003ci\u003eFoams\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of capsules, islands, and hothouses that leads to the discovery of the foam city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSpheres\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy ultimately presents a theology without a God--a spatial theology that requires no God, whose death therefore need not be of concern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with the two preceding volumes, \u003ci\u003eFoams\u003c\/i\u003e can be read on its own or in relation to the rest of the trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely read German intellectuals writing today. His 1983 publication of \u003ci\u003eCritique of Cynical Reason\u003c\/i\u003e (published in English in 1988) became the best-selling German book of philosophy since World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 912\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.8 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771324956960,"sku":"9781584351870","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6e1cd99f1c484b468b76f5d95c7cc815.webp?v=1780384688","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/foams-spheres-volume-iii-plural-spherology-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}