{"product_id":"you-must-change-your-life-paperback-softback-9780745649221","title":"You Must Change Your Life (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745649221","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eYou Must Change Your Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Sloterdijk (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745649221, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 September 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e500 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm, 0.748 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Breathtaking.... A superb and wide-ranging analysis of those moderns who have refused to be pampered or to dwell in capitalist decadence.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Make(s) it possible to begin to come to grips with Sloterdijk as a stirring and eclectic thinker, who addresses himself boldly to the most important problems of our age.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A tour de force that engages the history of philosophy, religion, and thought, both Western and Eastern, in ways that make you think deeply about the evolution of the human being these past few thousand years.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sloterdijk is both seriously learned and brilliantly creative, and he has a talent for wit. He deserves shelf-space alongside Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Humanist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sloterdijk has constructed in this beautiful text a supreme heterotopology - a place from which to think and see differently.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eEduardo Mendieta, Stony Brook University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A challenging, powerful, and at times frustrating read. Sloterdijk ranges widely across literatures and topics, inspiring and provoking in equal measure. He is fortunate to have Wieland Hoban as his excellent translator. A very good antidote to the chicken-soup banalities of other life-changing philosophy.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eStuart Elden, Durham University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Challenging the pious and self-righteous alarm of those who have declared war on the return to religion, Sloterdijk – in his typically original irreverence – argues that we cannot see today’s religiosity as any sort of return. What is really at stake is the formation of the self through practices. Charting a path beyond liberal critiques of religion and post-secular pseudo-returns to spirit, Sloterdijk provides a genuinely twenty-first century approach to the problem of life-formation. This book opens up new ways of thinking about life after humanism without lapsing into the simple affirmations of the post-human.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eClaire Colebrook, Penn State University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Peter Sloterdijk has assembled in this book the most amazing series of practices invented in history to hold humans souls suspended to a virtual hook slightly above their head. The result is a totally original analysis of religion by the most important philosopher or rather educator of today.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBruno Latour, Ecole des mines, Paris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk  presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it  is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else  quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present:  the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself  through exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke  formulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentieth  century in the imperative 'You must change your life'. \u003cp\u003eIn making his case for the expansion of the practice zone for  individuals and for society as a whole, Sloterdijk develops a  fundamental and fundamentally new anthropology. The core of his science  of the human being is an insight into the self-formation of all things  human. The activity of both individuals and collectives constantly comes  back to affect them: work affects the worker, communication the  communicator, feelings the feeler.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is those humans who engage expressly in practice that embody this  mode of existence most clearly: farmers, workers, warriors, writers,  yogis, rhetoricians, musicians or models. By examining their training  plans and peak performances, this book offers a panorama of exercises  that are necessary to be, and remain, a human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: On the Anthropotechnic Turn 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Planet of the Practising\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Command from the Stone 19\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRilke’s Experience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Remote View of the Ascetic Planet 29\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNietzsche’s Antiquity Project\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Only Cripples Will Survive 40\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eUnthan’s Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Last Hunger Art 61\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKafka’s Artistes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Parisian Buddhism 73\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCioran’s Exercises\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransition: Religions Do Not Exist 83\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom Pierre de Coubertin to L. Ron Hubbard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI The Conquest of the Improbable: For an Acrobatic Ethics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProgramme 109\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Height Psychology 111\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe doctrine of Upward Propagation and the Meaning of ‘Over’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ‘Culture Is a Monastic Rule’ 131\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTwilight of the Life Forms, Disciplines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Sleepless in Ephesus 160\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Demons of Habit and Their Taming Through First Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Habitus and Inertia 175\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Base Camps of the Practising Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Cur Homo Artista 190\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Ease of the Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII Exaggeration Procedures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBackdrop: Retreats into Unusualness 211\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 First Eccentricity 217\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Separation of the Practising and Their Soliloguies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Complete and the Incomplete 243\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow the Spirit of Perfection Entangles the Practising in Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Master Games 271\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTrainers as Guarantors of the Art of Exaggeration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Change of Trainer and Revolution 298\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn Conversations and Opportunistic Turns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII The Exercises of the Modern\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProspect: The Re-Secularization of the Withdrawn Subject 315\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Art with Humans 331\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIn the Arsenals of Anthropotechnics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 In the Auto-Operatively Curved Space 369\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Human Beings Between Anaesthesia and Biopolitics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Exercises and Misexercises 404\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Critique of Repetition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrospective\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom the Re-Embedding of the Subject to the Relapse into Total Care\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutlook: The Absolute Imperative 442\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 453\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 487\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52449451082008,"sku":"9780745649221","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745649221.jpg?v=1785199869","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/you-must-change-your-life-paperback-softback-9780745649221","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}