Sphären. Mikrosphärologie

Peter Sloterdijk embarks on nothing less than the attempt to narrate the history of humanity in his three-volume work "Spheres." He starts with the simple question: Where do people live once they know they are at home on a sphere, a globe? To approach an answer to this question, Peter Sloterdijk develops the concept of spheres and weaves a fascinating, multi-perspective narrative from the earliest cultures to our global age. This first book of the Spheres trilogy deals with micro-spherical entities known as bubbles. They form the basic molecules of strong relationships. Sloterdijk's analysis takes on the unprecedented task of recounting the epic of the always lost yet never completely erased dualities. "We traverse, with the insight into our inevitable conceptual helplessness as our only sure companion, landscapes of pre-objective existence and prior relationships. During our journey through the evasive underworld of the inner world, a phantom image of a liquid and auratic universe unfolds like a sounding map – entirely woven from resonances and floating substances; within it, the primal history of the soul remains to be sought.".