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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies
EditorsJenny Helin , Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth, Robin Holt
Number of pages18
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date2014
Pages567-584
ISBN (print)978-0-19-874653-9
ISBN (electronic)978-0-19-966935-6
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Publication statusPublished - 2014