Rage and Time - A Psychopolitical Investigation

Informationen zum Autor Peter Sloterdijk. Translated by Mario Wenning Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Rage Transactions 2. The Wrathful God: The Discovery of the Metaphysical Revenge Bank 3. The Rage Revolution: On the Communist World Bank of Rage 4. The Dispersion of Rage in the Era of the Center Conclusion: Beyond Resentment Notes

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Peter Sloterdijk. Translated by Mario Wenning

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• Authors: Sloterdijk, Peter Sloterdijk
• Assisted by: Mario Wenning (Translation), Wenning Mario (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9780231145237
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14523-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Columbia University Press; Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture; Insurrections: Critical Studie; Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture; Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics and Culture (COUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis