Tag: Stoterdijk

• April 25, 2014

  Overcoming dying: On Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life

  This is the ninth set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). The first set of reflections can be read here. A summary of Stoterdijk’s principal theses is available here. * Here is the thrust of Stoterdijk’s argument: First, reinterpret human beings as training animals and then see what this reinterpretation ‘opens us.’ Second, reclaim a…
• April 22, 2014

  Overcoming burden: Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life

  This is the sixth set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). The first set of reflections can be read here. A summary of Stoterdijk’s principal theses is available here. * Recall that Stoterdijk is singularly focused on how the practicing animal can become more than he is. Having seceded from the buzz and…