{"product_id":"the-terrible-children-of-modernity-an-antigenealogical-experiment-paperback","title":"The Terrible Children of Modernity: An Antigenealogical Experiment - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Sloterdijk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eOliver Berghof\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eEfraín Kristal\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Sloterdijk is among the most acclaimed and widely read philosophers of the past half-century. Called \"Germany's most controversial thinker\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, he has challenged and provoked readers worldwide with extraordinarily ambitious and wide-ranging works of philosophical and cultural critique. In \u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Children of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, Sloterdijk offers a magisterial and profound investigation into the vicissitudes of historical change and the nature of modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Sloterdijk, modernity is defined by its need to break with the past. Moderns are perpetual rebels who seek to sever the ties of tradition and forms of inheritance that bind generations and eras together. With deep philosophical, historical, and literary range, he traces this antigenealogical experiment from the French Revolution onward, from Madame de Pompadour and Napoleon through Nietzsche, Marx, Wagner, the Dadaists, and Deleuze. Acutely aware of the destructive potential of cultural discontinuities, Sloterdijk is no less critical of the \"fathers\" who condemn change than the \"terrible children\" who seek a drastic rupture with their predecessors. Equally concerned with the grand sweep of history and our current predicaments, he instead calls for new ways to live together in the intersubjectivity of the human condition. Incisive and daring, breathtaking in its scope, this account of youthful rebellion against tradition asks us to reimagine the ethics of genealogy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Sloterdijk is professor emeritus of aesthetics and philosophy at the Institute of Design in Karlsruhe. His numerous books include the best-selling \u003ci\u003eCritique of Cynical Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYou Must Change Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSpheres\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy. Columbia University Press has also published Sloterdijk's \u003ci\u003eRage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), and \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e (2013). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOliver Berghof is professor of literature and writing studies at California State University, San Marcos. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEfraín Kristal is distinguished professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45525305393254,"sku":"9780231175333","price":72.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/EpX17dzs1Z9780231175333.webp?v=1776592084","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-terrible-children-of-modernity-an-antigenealogical-experiment-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}