{"product_id":"globes-spheres-volume-ii-macrospherology-hardcover","title":"Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Sloterdijk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWieland Hoban\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion.\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eGlobes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGlobes\u003c\/i\u003e--the second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated magnum opus Spheres trilogy--the author attempts nothing less than to uncover the philosophical foundations of the political history--the history of humanity--of the last two thousand years. The first, well-received volume of the author's \u003ci\u003eSpheres\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, \u003ci\u003eBubbles\u003c\/i\u003e, dealt with microspheres: the fact that individuals, from the fetal stage to childhood, are never alone, because they always incorporate the Other into themselves and align themselves with it. With \u003ci\u003eGlobes\u003c\/i\u003e, Sloterdijk opens up a history of the political world using the morphological models of the orb and the globe, and argues that all previous statements about globalization have suffered from shortsightedness. For him, globalization begins with the ancient Greeks, who represented the whole world through the shape of the orb. With the discovery of America and the first circumnavigations of the earth, the orb was replaced by the globe. This second globalization is currently giving way to the third, which we are living through today, as the general virtuality of all conditions leads to a growing spatial crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Sloterdijk tells here the true story of globalization: from the geometrization of the sky in Plato and Aristotle to the circumnavigation of the last orb--the earth--by ships, capital, and signals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely read German intellectuals writing today. His 1983 publication of \u003ci\u003eCritique of Cynical Reason\u003c\/i\u003e (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, \u003ci\u003eDas Philosophische Quartett\u003c\/i\u003e (Philosophical Quartet) on German television since 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.94 x 9.78 x 6.15 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48289955119353,"sku":"9781584351603","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UzrnetdE4i9781584351603.webp?v=1776276363","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/globes-spheres-volume-ii-macrospherology-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}