Lo spazio della storia. Antropologia, società e globalizzazione nella riflessione di Peter Sloterdijk

Introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, The world inside the capital.Large part of the work of Sloterdijk is devoted to the attempt to reconstruct the reason for the 'sphere' in the Western philosophical tradition as a figure who, nell'enorme period of time ranging from Plato to Leibniz and beyond, was the key to ensuring all ' man that "climate advantage" that allowed him to acquire skills plastics, and to establish a distance from nature. It is not, however, to reconstruct the events of metaphors involving spherical bodies but to reveal the sphere as an 'image of thought "which outlines the conditions under which humans live the" climate "that the self can survive, despite its lack of biological adaptation to the environment, and to refine the intelligence for purposes of identification. The "sphere" is in this light a median size compared to other two elements that define the position in the world: they are halfway between life in the environment, understood in terms of how the ontological presence around a be significant factors for him and a set of conditions that allow survival in terms of staffing, el'essere-in-the-world as an area of open all'illimitato.