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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY NEW After God PETER SLOTERDIJK Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design Translated by Ian Alexander Moore ‘Sloterdijk in effect exposes the uncultured crudeness of Anglo-Saxon atheists. He offers us here a long, historically infomed mediation on the way in which the question of “soul” and its intimations of the ultimate can tend at once to undermine institutional religion and yet also to present an obstacle against any final disenchantment of the world. Beyond sterile polemic, this book, whether one agrees with it or not, can help stimulate more fruitful and mutually respectful debates about religion.’ John Milbank, University of Nottingham In his Critique of Cynical Reason, Peter Sloterdijk pursued an enlightenment of the Enlightenment in both its beginnings and the present. After God is dedicated to the theological enlightenment of theology. It ranges from the period when gods reigned to reveries about the godlike power of artificial intelligence. 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • UK April 2020, US June 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-3350-3 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3351-0 • £17.99 / $24.95 / €23.90 ebook available What Happened in the 20th Century? PETER SLOTERDIJK Translated by Christopher Turner ‘From a philosophical reflection on the Anthropocene to a reconsideration of Heidegger’s politics, Sloterdijk gathers here a Borgesian palimpsest of ways of looking at our history and historicity. This is Sloterdijk’s response to Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment and Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes – it is a book of ideas and Cyclopean landscapes that gives us a new diagnosis of our times.’ Eduardo Mendieta, Penn State University In this new volume, philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the twentieth century if we focus on events or ideologies. Rather, he argues that the predominant motif of the twentieth century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now. 229 x 152mm • 240 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-1837-1 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-1-5095-1838-8 • £18.99 / $26.95 / €24.90 ebook available See backlist for more Sloterdijk titles. The Aesthetic Imperative Writings on Art PETER SLOTERDIJK Translated by Karen Margolis ‘The Aesthetic Imperative crystallizes and intensifies the already formidable force of Sloterdijk’s corpus. By working through the history of philosophy we discover that the bourgeois subject’s capacity to discern the beautiful is at once an art of self-formation and a beautiful form of the self. This is not one more book on the relation between art and politics: it redefines the polity as a singular account of a beauty beyond art, and redefines the aesthetic by way of a subjectivity that is on its way to being political.’ Claire Colebrook, Penn State University In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Sloterdijk transforms the way we look at works of art, leading us away from conventional art history to develop a bold new theory of aesthetics. 229 x 152mm • 352 pages • 2017 HB • 978-0-7456-9986-8 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-0-7456-9987-5 • £18.99 / $28.95 / €24.90 ebook available Foucault: The Birth of Power STUART ELDEN University of Warwick and Monash University ‘Foucault: The Birth of Power opens an illuminating window into the process of political awakening and philosophical transformation as intellectual history. Drawing on lectures, talks, and unpublished as well as published material, Stuart Elden has marshalled the contents of a massive archive to substantiate this pivotal period in the development of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.’ Caren Kaplan, University of California, Davis 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • 2017 HB • 978-1-5095-0725-2 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-1-5095-0726-9 • £18.99 / $26.95 / €22.90 ebook available Foucault’s Last Decade STUART ELDEN ‘Elden has produced a masterful text that reconstructs how a “thinker” thinks between failure and success, between the possible and the as-yet-unimaginable. This is philosophical inspiration at its most poetic height. Elden teaches us to read Foucault in a new way.’ Eduardo Mendieta, Penn State University 229 x 152mm • 264 pages • 2016 HB • 978-0-7456-8391-1 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-0-7456-8392-8 • £18.99 / $26.95 / €22.90 ebook available WWW.POLITYBOOKS.COM 28
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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY The Expulsion of the Other Society, Perception and Communication Today BYUNG-CHUL HAN University of the Arts, Berlin Translated by Wieland Hoban ‘No other philosophical author today has gone further than Byung-Chul Han in the analysis of our global everyday existence under the challenges of electronically induced hypercommunication. This new book concentrates on the “terror of the Same” – on a life without events and individual otherness, as an environment to which we react with depression. What makes this analysis of sameness so exceptional is the mastery with which Han brings into play the classics of our philosophical tradition and, through them, the historical worlds that provide us with horizons of existential otherness.’ Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University 216 x 140mm • 96 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-2305-4 • £40.00 / $64.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-1-5095-2306-1 • £12.99 / $14.95 / €15.90 ebook available What is Power? BYUNG-CHUL HAN Translated by Daniel Steuer ‘On an itinerary driven by unusual intellectual independence and perfect argumentative transparency, Byung-Chul Han may have reached the level of true philosophical mastership. Based on a circumspect discussion of the positions marked by some classical thinkers of modernity, What is Power? develops a new vision of the asymmetries produced by human interaction and thus lives up to the promise to “deprive power of that power it has on account of the fact that we do not fully understand what it actually is”.’ Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University 210 x 140mm • 144 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-1609-4 • £40.00 / $49.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-1-5095-1610-0 • £12.99 / $16.95 / €15.90 ebook available The Scent of Time A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering BYUNG-CHUL HAN Translated by Daniel Steuer ‘The Scent of Time describes what may be the condition of Byung-Chul Han’s unique international success among philosophers writing today. Starting out with the concept of “dyschronicity,” he analyzes a new, centrifugal form of time as a premise of existence which no longer allows for marked contours, beginnings, or endings – but to whose duration we can react with fresh modes of contemplative life.’ Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University 210 x 140mm • 144 pages • 2017 HB • 978-1-5095-1604-9 • £40.00 / $49.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-1-5095-1605-6 • £12.99 / $16.95 / €15.90 ebook available Saving Beauty BYUNG-CHUL HAN Translated by Daniel Steuer ‘In this provocative analysis, Han agitates against contemporary notions of smooth air-brushed beauty. Instead he pleads for an aesthetic based on a generative, creative, commitment to truth that can encompass negativity, injury and disaster. Ranging from pornography to classical literature this tour de force of thinking about our understanding of beauty reminds us that philosophy can have teeth. Han writes with a compelling urgency about how we live in the here and now, but also how we could live better. Saving Beauty is an aesthetic call to arms; an example of how philosophy can militate for a better world and make us see anew.’ Karen Leeder, University of Oxford 210 x 140mm • 112 pages • 2017 HB • 978-1-5095-1509-7 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-1510-3 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available Heidegger A Critical Introduction PETER TRAWNY Translated by Rodrigo Therezo ‘Focusing on Heidegger’s “metapolitical” texts from the 1930s, Trawny exposes the good, the bad, and the ugly of Heidegger’s middle period, and especially his tortured efforts to conjugate “the end of metaphysics” with his commitment to Hitler and Nazism. Trawny emphasizes what still remains valuable in Heidegger’s reflections on art, language, and poetry, even as he ruthlessly dissects the supinely stupid “metaphysical anti-Semitism” of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks.’ Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University 216 x 138mm • 208 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-2175-3 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-2176-0 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available Freedom to Fail Heidegger’s Anarchy PETER TRAWNY Translated by Ian Alexander Moore ‘A beautifully written text – not only a brilliant discussion of why Heidegger published the Black Notebooks, but also a deeper and more lasting philosophical discussion about Heidegger’s views on truth, ethics, tragedy, and failure.’ Eduardo Mendieta, Stony Brook University 190 x 124mm • 112 pages • 2015 HB • 978-0-7456-9522-8 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-0-7456-9523-5 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available WWW.POLITYBOOKS.COM 29

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After God PETER SLOTERDIJK Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design Translated by Ian Alexander Moore ‘Sloterdijk in effect exposes the uncultured crudeness of Anglo-Saxon atheists. He offers us here a long, historically infomed mediation on the way in which the question of “soul” and its intimations of the ultimate can tend at once to undermine institutional religion and yet also to present an obstacle against any final disenchantment of the world. Beyond sterile polemic, this book, whether one agrees with it or not, can help stimulate more fruitful and mutually respectful debates about religion.’ John Milbank, University of Nottingham In his Critique of Cynical Reason, Peter Sloterdijk pursued an enlightenment of the Enlightenment in both its beginnings and the present. After God is dedicated to the theological enlightenment of theology. It ranges from the period when gods reigned to reveries about the godlike power of artificial intelligence. 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • UK April 2020, US June 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-3350-3 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3351-0 • £17.99 / $24.95 / €23.90 ebook available

What Happened in the 20th Century? PETER SLOTERDIJK Translated by Christopher Turner ‘From a philosophical reflection on the Anthropocene to a reconsideration of Heidegger’s politics, Sloterdijk gathers here a Borgesian palimpsest of ways of looking at our history and historicity. This is Sloterdijk’s response to Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment and Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes – it is a book of ideas and Cyclopean landscapes that gives us a new diagnosis of our times.’ Eduardo Mendieta, Penn State University In this new volume, philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the twentieth century if we focus on events or ideologies. Rather, he argues that the predominant motif of the twentieth century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now. 229 x 152mm • 240 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-1837-1 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-1-5095-1838-8 • £18.99 / $26.95 / €24.90 ebook available

See backlist for more Sloterdijk titles.

The Aesthetic Imperative Writings on Art PETER SLOTERDIJK Translated by Karen Margolis ‘The Aesthetic Imperative crystallizes and intensifies the already formidable force of Sloterdijk’s corpus. By working through the history of philosophy we discover that the bourgeois subject’s capacity to discern the beautiful is at once an art of self-formation and a beautiful form of the self. This is not one more book on the relation between art and politics: it redefines the polity as a singular account of a beauty beyond art, and redefines the aesthetic by way of a subjectivity that is on its way to being political.’ Claire Colebrook, Penn State University In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Sloterdijk transforms the way we look at works of art, leading us away from conventional art history to develop a bold new theory of aesthetics. 229 x 152mm • 352 pages • 2017 HB • 978-0-7456-9986-8 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-0-7456-9987-5 • £18.99 / $28.95 / €24.90 ebook available

Foucault: The Birth of Power STUART ELDEN University of Warwick and Monash University ‘Foucault: The Birth of Power opens an illuminating window into the process of political awakening and philosophical transformation as intellectual history. Drawing on lectures, talks, and unpublished as well as published material, Stuart Elden has marshalled the contents of a massive archive to substantiate this pivotal period in the development of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.’ Caren Kaplan, University of California, Davis 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • 2017 HB • 978-1-5095-0725-2 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-1-5095-0726-9 • £18.99 / $26.95 / €22.90 ebook available

Foucault’s Last Decade STUART ELDEN ‘Elden has produced a masterful text that reconstructs how a “thinker” thinks between failure and success, between the possible and the as-yet-unimaginable. This is philosophical inspiration at its most poetic height. Elden teaches us to read Foucault in a new way.’ Eduardo Mendieta, Penn State University 229 x 152mm • 264 pages • 2016 HB • 978-0-7456-8391-1 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-0-7456-8392-8 • £18.99 / $26.95 / €22.90 ebook available

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