Neither sun nor death

Peter Sloterdijk first became known in this country for his late 1980's Critique of Cynical Reason, which confronted headlong the "enlightened false consciousness" of Habermasian critical theory. Since then he has published a wide range of books, including Spheres, his magnum opus, a three-volume archeology of the human attempt to dwell within spaces, from womb to globe: Bubbles, 1998; Globes, 1999; Foam, 2004, all forthcoming from Semiotext(e). -- In Neither Sun nor Death, Sloterdijk answers questions posed by German writer Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs about world mobilization, fascism and post-humanism, technological catastrophes, media contagion and self-intoxication, and the theory of globalization. -- Iconoclastic and provocative, Sloterdijk is the most exciting and controversial German philosopher to appear on the world scene since Nietzsche and Heidegger. Like Nietzsche, Sloterdijk is convinced that contemporary philosophers have to think dangerously and allow themselves to be "kidnapped" by contemporary "hypercomplexities," forsaking old humanistic and national worldviews for a wider horizon, at once ecological and global. -- Neither Sun nor Death is the best available introduction to his philosophical itinerary. It reveals an extraordinary philosopher as much at ease with current French Theory as with Kant, Heidegger and Indian mystic Osho Rajneesh, whom he met during his seven-year sojourn in India in the 1970's, studying Eastern philosophy. --Book Jacket.