Stress and freedom / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.
Stress and freedom / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.
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Publisher
Malden, MA : Polity, [2016]
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G 2017/6885
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Language
English
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Physical content
vi, 60 pages ; 19 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Large-scale political bodies as stress communes -- Lucretia's revolt, Rousseau's retreat -- Stress and freedom -- The reaction of the real -- On the source of committed freedom.
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Publisher
Malden, MA : Polity, [2016]
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in response to a form of anxiety or stress. Through a highly original reading of Rousse...
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Stress and freedom / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2016
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Call Numbers
G 2017/6885
Record Identifier
74VKVgzJqK7O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgzJqK7O
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ISBN
9780745699288
DDC
123.5
MMS ID
991024145212702626
