Deep Time Ecstasy

Ponderings from Beyond the Time-Wall, Courtesy of Peter Sloterdijk

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Keywords:

Ecstatic temporality, Eurotaoism, Political kinetics, Philosophical gynaecology, Social acceleration

Abstract

Review essay of Infinite Mobilization, by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Sandra Berjan, Cambridge, Polity, 2020, 240 pp., $24.95, ISBN: 978-1-509-51847-0.

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23-08-2022

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Andersson, D. (2022). Deep Time Ecstasy: Ponderings from Beyond the Time-Wall, Courtesy of Peter Sloterdijk. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 18(1), 577–611. Retrieved from https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1019

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