دانلود کتاب You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics

In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke formulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentieth century in the imperative 'You must change your life'.In making his case for the expansion of the practice zone for individuals and for society as a whole, Sloterdijk develops a fundamental and fundamentally new anthropology. The core of his science of the human being is an insight into the self-formation of all things human. The activity of both individuals and collectives constantly comes back to affect them: work affects the worker, communication the communicator, feelings the feeler.It is those humans who engage expressly in practice that embody this mode of existence most clearly: farmers, workers, warriors, writers, yogis, rhetoricians, musicians or models. By examining their training plans and peak performances, this book offers a panorama of exercises that are necessary to be, and remain, a human being."Peter Sloterdijk has assembled in this book the most amazing series of practices invented in history to hold humans souls suspended to a virtual hook slightly above their head. The result is a totally original analysis of religion by the most important philosopher or rather educator of today." - Bruno Latour, Ecole des mines, ParisContents:Introduction: On the Anthropotechnic TurnThe Planet of the PractisingPART I. The Conquest of the Improbable: For an Acrobatic EthicsPROGRAMME1. HEIGHT PSYCHOLOGY: The Doctrine of Upward Propagation and the Meaning of 'Over'2. 'CULTURE IS A MONASTIC RULE': Twilight of the Life Forms, Disciplinics3. SLEEPLESS IN EPHESUS: On the Demons of Habit and Their Taming Through First Theory4. HABITUS AND INERTIA: On the Base Camps of the Practising Life5. CUR HOMO ARTISTA: On the Ease of the ImpossiblePART II. Exaggeration ProceduresBACKDROP: Retreats into Unusualness6. FIRST ECCENTRICITY: On the Separation of the Practising and Their Soliloquies7. THE COMPLETE AND THE INCOMPLETE: How the Spirit of Perfection Entangles the Practising in Stories8. MASTER GAMES: Trainers as Guarantors of the Art of Exaggeration9. CHANGE OF TRAINER AND REVOLUTION: On Conversions and Opportunistic TurnsPART III. The Exercises of the ModernsPROSPECT: The Re-Secularization of the Withdrawn Subject10. ART WITH HUMANS: In the Arsenals of Anthropotechnics11. IN THE AUTO-OPERATIVELY CURVED SPACE: New Human Beings Between Anaesthesia and Biopolitics12. EXERCISES AND MISEXERCISES: The Critique of RepetitionRETROSPECTIVE: From the Re-Embedding of the Subject to the Relapse into Total CareOUTLOOK: The Absolute Imperative