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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Social & political philosophy

• Full title: You Must Change Your Life
• Author: Peter Sloterdijk
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500
• EAN: 9780745649221
• ISBN: 074564922X
• ID: 02695049
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Weight: 816 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 227 × 38 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. September 2014

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