Bubbles, Globes, Wrappings, and Plektopoi
Minimal Notes to Rethink Metaphysics from the Standpoint of the Social Sciences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475780 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luis Castro Nogueira (Facultad de Ciencias Polítícas y Sociología, Departamento de Sociología I, Universidad National de Educatión a Distancia, C/Obispo Trejo s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain), Luís Nogueira (0000-0002-9872-4191, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-104 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d2808 |
| OpenAlex | W2050751905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
This essay aims to offer a critical development of some of the implications that the ideas of Peter Sloterdijk give rise to, in order to explore and rethink the microclimatic and self-immunological dimensions of the old metaphysical schools in particular and of metaphysics in general. Nevertheless, in order to achieve this task it is necessary to free Sloterdijk's thought from certain phantasms that beset and undermine the most promising of his categories. The first part of the paper consists of an exposition of some of the basic ideas regarding bubbles and globes (thus, following the first two volumes of the trilogy Sphären); and contends that it is not possible to pass from the first ( Blasen/bubbles) to the second ( Globen/globes) without losing the most critical and subversive elements concerning the task of rethinking the social sciences in their micro-anthropological dimensions. In the second part, against the account of Western metaphysics espoused by Sloterdijk but taking on board some of his most suggestive insights, a radically different materialist perspective is put to the test. Finally, the third part offers a summary of our differences
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Exposition (narrative · Literature · Materialism · Metaphysics · Order (exchange · Sociology · Trilogy · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |