Prometheus's Remorse
From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson
$35.09
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2024
Summary
The stirring speech given by Peter Sloterdijk in Lucerne in October 2022.
From time immemorial, humanity has had to organize their “metabolism with nature.” For Marx, the most important factor in this process was labor. When Prometheus, according to the myth, brought fire to earth, another crucial input was added. Fire has been used to cook food and harden tools for hundreds of thousands of years. In this sense, it can be said that all history implies the history of the uses of fire.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635902075 |
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| ISBN-10: | 163590207X |
| Author: | Peter Sloterdijk, Hunter Bolin |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series |
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About The Author
Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and most widely read German intellectuals writing today. His 1983 publication of Critique of Cynical Reason (published in English in 1988) became the best-selling German book of philosophy since World War II. He became president of the State Academy of Design at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe in 2001. He has been cohost of a discussion program, Der Philosophische Quartett (Philosophical quartet), on German television since 2002.
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