Spheres trilogy
{{short description|Book trilogy by Peter Sloterdijk}}
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{{Infobox book series
| name = Spheres
| books = {{Plainlist|
- Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology (1998)
- Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology (1999)
- Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology (2004)
}}
| image = Peter Sloterdijk - Sphären. Drei Bände.jpg
| alt =
| author = Peter Sloterdijk
| translator = Wieland Hoban
| cover_artist =
| country = Germany
| language = German
| genre = Philosophy
| publisher = Suhrkamp Verlag
| pub_date = 1998–2004
| website = {{URL|https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/peter-sloterdijk-sphaeren-t-9783518414941}}
}}
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The Spheres trilogy ({{langx|de|Sphären-Trilogie}}) is three books about the human conception of inhabited spaces, written by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk and titled Bubbles (1998), Globes (1999) and Foams (2004). The books were published in German by Suhrkamp Verlag and in English translation by Semiotext(e).
''Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology''
Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology ({{langx|de|Sphären. Mikrosphärologie. Band I. Blasen}}) was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1998. The original German version is 644 pages long.{{sfn|Steiner|2005|p=56}} The book uses visual language to present a general theory about couplings, and how individuals are never alone because they always align themselves with the Other. It was published in English translation by Wieland Hoban through Semiotext(e) on 14 October 2011.{{cite web |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584351047/ |title=Bubbles |publisher=MIT Press |access-date=25 August 2023 }}
''Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology''
Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology ({{langx|de|Sphären. Makrosphärologie. Band II. Globen|link=no}}) was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1999. At 1013 pages,{{sfn|Steiner|2005|p=56}} it is the longest book in the series and analyzes the philosophical foundations of the last 2000 years of human history, beginning with how the ancient Greeks represented the world as an orb and thereby began globalisation. The book was published in English translation by Wieland Hoban through Semiotext(e) on 10 October 2014.{{cite web |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584351603/ |title=Globes |publisher=MIT Press |access-date=25 August 2023 }}
''Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology''
Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology ({{langx|de|Sphären. Plurale Sphärologie. Band III. Schäume|link=no}}) was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2004 and is 916 pages long.{{sfn|Steiner|2005|p=56}} Focusing on contemporary times, it analyzes how social bubbles are bound together to constitute a society, and moves into a theology where spatiality is at the centre. The book was published in English translation by Wieland Hoban through Semiotext(e) on 19 August 2016.{{cite web |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584351870/ |title=Foams |publisher=MIT Press |access-date=25 August 2023 }}
Reception
The Canadian philosopher Marie-Eve Morin highlights the large scope of Sloterdijk's attempt to analyze globalisation through the spatial implications in Martin Heidegger's Dasein concept, writing that the Spheres trilogy offers "a comprehensive narrative concerning the historical development of humankind".{{sfn|Morin|2009|p=58}} Comparing the Spheres trilogy to the pessimistic theories about human societies in Carl Schmitt's {{ill|Land and Sea (book)|lt=Land and Sea|it|Terra e mare}} (1942), the media studies scholar Ethan Stoneman writes that Sloterdijk's "spherology" offers an affirmative "spatial anthropology" where shared spaces and shared living are ever-renewable, without the need for nostalgia, resignation or expansionist geopolitics.{{sfn|Stoneman|2020|pp=303–321}}
References
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- {{cite journal |last=Morin |first=Marie-Eve |author-link=Marie-Eve Morin |year=2009 |url=https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/be29c56d-3e5e-4a1c-bd01-799fe9216a46/view/54b11056-fe0c-440c-a4e2-7dee69447665/EPD_27_58.pdf |title=Cohabitating in the Globalised World: Peter Sloterdijk's Global Foams and Bruno Latour's Cosmopolitics |journal=Environment and Planning D: Society and Space |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=58–72 |doi=10.1068/d4908 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Steiner |first=Uwe C. |year=2005 |title=Peter Sloterdijk: Sphären I—III |journal={{ill|Philosophische Rundschau|de}} |language=de |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=56–65 |jstor=42572696 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Stoneman |first=Ethan |year=2020 |title=After Englobement: Carl Schmitt, Peter Sloterdijk, and the Rediscovery of the Uncompressible |journal=Cultural Politics |volume=16 |issue=3 |doi=10.1215/17432197-8593508 }}
External links
- Presentations from Suhrkamp Verlag: [https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/peter-sloterdijk-sphaeren-t-9783518414941 box set], [https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/peter-sloterdijk-sphaeren-mikrosphaerologie-t-9783518410226 Blasen], [https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/peter-sloterdijk-sphaeren-makrosphaerologie-t-9783518410547 Globen] and [https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/peter-sloterdijk-sphaeren-plurale-sphaerologie-t-9783518414668 Schäume] {{in lang|de}}
- Presentations from MIT Press: [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/bubbles Bubbles], [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/globes Globes] and [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/foams Foams]
{{Peter Sloterdijk}}
Category:Book series introduced in 1998
Category:Books about globalization
Category:Books by Peter Sloterdijk
Category:Social philosophy literature