Ontological Co-belonging in Peter Sloterdijk's Spherological Philosophy of Mediation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4389355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Sutherland (0000-0003-1538-7044, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-152 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2017.0222 |
| OpenAlex | W2614144567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article examines the ontology and politics of Peter Sloterdijk's Spheres trilogy, focusing in particular upon the notion of microspherical enclosure explicated in the first volume of this series. Noting Sloterdijk's unusual alignment of his philosophy with media theory, three main contentions are put forward. Firstly, that Sloterdijk's reconfiguration of Heidegger's fundamental ontology represents a largely unacknowledged renunciation of the primacy of Being-towards-death in the authentic existence of Dasein, foregrounding instead an originary co-belonging between mother and child. Secondly, that Sloterdijk borrows from media theory a concern regarding the facticity of all communication, grounding philosophical discourse in the determinate locality of its origin, but does so while exalting a pre-natal communicative immediacy that would seem to disparage the everydayness of Dasein. Finally, that Sloterdijk's oft-justified scepticism regarding globalization often retreats into an anti-cosmopolitanism that, in its nostalgia for the comfort, security and immediacy of the matrixial co-belonging (and the various attempts by humans to replicate this enclosure), evinces a covert but potentially noxious politics of exclusion
Aesthetics · Critical theory · Epistemology · Facticity · Immediacy · Political philosophy · Politics · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
The Monstrous Mark of Cinema
Breathing, Cinema and Other “Nobjects” in Camille Vidal-Naquet’s Sauvage
The evolutionary turn in the philosophy of technology
Music Worlding in Palau
Music Worlding in Palau
Peter Sloterdijk and the 'Security Architecture of Existence
Sphere ecology
Atmospheric Border Politics
Regional immunity complexes
Ascetic Worlds
The Limits of the Spheres
The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |