Peter Sloterdijk (1947b)
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Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher and public intellectual whose work constitutes an original philosophy of becoming, of processes of formation and self-formation. Due to his wide-ranging interests––he has been called a ‘morphological thinker’ and a ‘trainee’ experimenting with new forms and combinations of thought––and his outspoken disdain for the ‘scholastic aberrance’ of institutional philosophy, Sloterdijk has become a singular and contested figure in the intellectual landscape. This chapter examines Sloterdijk’s body of thought and its relevance to organization studies, especially with regard to embodiment, space, affect, and a scholarly ethics of generosity. In particular, it discusses his notions of ‘coming-into-the-world’ and relational movement, cynicism and kynicism, anthropotechnics and acrobatics, spatiality and (atmo)sphere, and thymotic energies and psychopolitics.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies |
| Editors | Jenny Helin , Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth, Robin Holt |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Pages | 567-584 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-0-19-874653-9 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-0-19-966935-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
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