In the World Interior of Capital

Resumen del libro

Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously the historical and philosophical consequences of the notion of the earth as a globe, arriving at the thesis that what is praised or decried as globalization is actually the end phase in a process that began with the first circumnavigation of the earth D and that one can already discern elements of a new era beyond globalization. In the end phase of globalization, the world system completed its development and, as a capitalist system, came to determine all conditions of life.

Sloterdijk takes the Crystal Palace in London, the site of the first world exhibition in 1851, as the most expressive metaphor for this situation. The palace demonstrates the inevitable exclusivity of globalization as the construction of a comfort structure D that is, the establishment and expansion of a world interior whose boundaries are invisible, yet virtually insurmountable from without, and which is inhabited by one and a half billion winners of globalization; three times this number are left standing outside the door.

Biografía del autor

Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe, Alemania, 1947) , uno de los filósofos contemporáneos más prestigiosas y polémicos, es rector de la Escuela Superior de Información y Creación de Karlsruhe y catedrático de Filosofía de la Cultura y de Teoría de Medios de Comunicación en la Academia Vienesa de las Artes Plásticas. De su extensa obra pueden destacarse, entre otros, su novela x{0026}lt;em El árbol mágicox{0026}lt;/em y sus libros ensayísticos x{0026}lt;em El pensador en escenax{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em Eurotaoísmox{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em Extrañamiento del mundox{0026}lt;/em (Premio Ernst Robert Curtius 1993) y x{0026}lt;em El desprecio de las masasx{0026}lt;/em .