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Author Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-

Title Philosophical temperaments : from Plato to Foucault / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Thomas Dunlap ; foreword by Creston Davis.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 114 pages).
Series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword to the English Translation by Creston Davis -- Preface -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Augustine -- Bruno -- Descartes -- Pascal -- Leibniz -- Kant -- Fichte -- Hegel -- Schelling -- Schopenhauer -- Kierkegaard -- Marx -- Nietzcsche -- Husserl -- Wittgenstein -- Sartre -- Foucault -- Notes -- Index.
Summary Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in personal characterizations and theoretical analysis, Sloterdijk's companionable volume casts the development of philosophical thinking not as a buildup of compelling books and arguments but as a lifelong, intimate struggle with intellectual and spiritual movements, filled with as many pitfalls and derailments as transcendent breakthroughs. Sloterdijk delves into the work and tim.
Subject Philosophers -- Biography.
Philosophy -- Introductions.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Philosophers.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Philosophers. (OCoLC)fst01060746
Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Introductions. (OCoLC)fst01423833
Added Title Philosophische Temperamente. English
Other Form: Print version: Sloterdijk, Peter. Philosophical Temperaments : From Plato to Foucault. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 9780231153737
ISBN 9780231527408 (electronic bk.)
0231527403 (electronic bk.)
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