Articles | Volume 73, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-273-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-273-2018
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18 Oct 2018
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The geography of spheres: an introduction and critical assessment of Peter Sloterdijk's concept of spheres

Huib Ernste

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With his magnum opus on Spheres, Peter Sloterdijk introduces a critical philosophical and cultural view on the spatiality of current society. In this contribution we elaborate on the spatial metaphor Sloterdijk uses but also scrutinise Sloterdijk's ideas by drawing some parallels between his ideas and those of other philosophical anthropological thinkers. Finally, we very briefly point to a suitable conceptual framework for investigating the spherology of a human being in the world.