Stress and Freedom

Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe School of Design), Wieland Hoban

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English

Polity Press
23 October 2015

Social & political philosophy; Social theory; Political science & theory

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 Rousseau�s late Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Sloterdijk shows that, for Rousseau, the modern subject emerges as a subject free of all stress, unburdened by the cares of the world. Most of modern philosophy, and above all German Idealism, is an attempt to reign back Rousseau�s useless and anarchical subject and anchor it in the cares of the world, in the task of having to produce both the world and itself. In the light of this highly original account, Sloterdijk develops his own distinctive account of freedom, where freedom is conceptualized as the availability for the improbable.

This important text, in which Sloterdijk develops his account of freedom and the modern subject, will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy and the humanities and to anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and critical theory.

By: Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe School of Design)
Translated by: Wieland Hoban
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 172g
ISBN: 9780745699288
ISBN 10: 0745699286
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 23 October 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design

Reviews for Stress and Freedom

In this essay on the meaning of freedom today Peter Sloterdijk offers a stunning account of our post-modern predicaments. He writes as ever with polemical verve and great wit, tracing an aberrant freedom from the dissidence of Rousseau s figure of the solitary walker to the existential principles of Beckett s neglected first play Eleutheria. The result is an impassioned tour de force in defence of freedom and a call for a renewed ethic of liberality and generosity. This is a must read. Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick