Beskrivning
Beskrivning
In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijkpresents a critique of myth – the myth of the return of religion. For itis not religion that is returning; rather, there is something elsequite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present:the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itselfthrough exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilkeformulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentiethcentury in the imperative ’You must change your life’. In making his case for the expansion of the practice zone forindividuals and for society as a whole, Sloterdijk develops afundamental and fundamentally new anthropology. The core of his scienceof the human being is an insight into the self-formation of all thingshuman. The activity of both individuals and collectives constantly comesback to affect them: work affects the worker, communication thecommunicator, feelings the feeler.It is those humans who engage expressly in practice that embody thismode of existence most clearly: farmers, workers, warriors, writers,yogis, rhetoricians, musicians or models.By examining their trainingplans and peak performances, this book offers a panorama of exercisesthat are necessary to be, and remain, a human being.
