Couture - Sloterdijk

1. Jeremy Ahearne, Michel de Certeau
2. Lee Braver, Heidegger
3. John Burgess, Kripke
4. Michael Caesar, Umberto Eco
5. M. J. Cain, Fodor
6. Filipe Carreira da Silva, G. H. Mead
7. Rosemary Cowan, Cornel West
8. George Crowder, Isaiah Berlin
9. Gareth Dale, Karl Polanyi
10. Colin Davis, Levinas
11. Oliver Davis, Jacques Rancire
12. Maximilian de Gaynesford, John McDowell
13. Reidar Andreas Due, Deleuze
14. Matthew Elton, Daniel Dennett
15. Simon Evnine, Donald Davidson
16. Chris Fleming, Ren Girard
17. Edward Fullbrook and Kate Fullbrook, Simone de Beauvoir
18. Andrew Gamble, Hayek
19. Neil Gascoigne, Richard Rorty
20. Nigel Gibson, Fanon
21. Graeme Gilloch, Siegfried Kracauer
22. Graeme Gilloch, Walter Benjamin
23. Karen Green, Dummett
24. Espen Hammer, Stanley Cavell
25. Phillip Hansen, Hannah Arendt
26. Sean Homer, Fredric Jameson
27. Christina Howells, Derrida
28. Fred Inglis, Clifford Geertz
29. Simon Jarvis, Adorno
30. Rachel Jones, Irigaray
31. Sarah Kay, iek
32. S. K. Keltner, Kristeva
33. Valerie Kennedy, Edward Said
34. Chandran Kukathas and Philip Pettit, Rawls
35. Moya Lloyd, Judith Butler
36. Philip Manning, Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology
37. James McGilvray, Chomsky, 2nd Edition
38. Lois McNay, Foucault
39. Dermot Moran, Edmund Husserl
40. Michael Moriarty, Roland Barthes
41. Marie-Eve Morin, Jean-Luc Nancy
42. Stephen Morton, Gayatri Spivak
43. Timothy Murphy, Antonio Negri
44. Harold W. Noonan, Frege
45. James O'Shea, Wilfrid Sellars
46. William Outhwaite, Habermas, 2nd Edition
47. Kari Palonen, Quentin Skinner
48. Herman Paul, Hayden White
49. Ed Pluth, Badiou
50. John Preston, Feyerabend
51. Chris Rojek, Stuart Hall
52. William Scheuerman, Morgenthau
53. Severin Schroeder, Wittgenstein
54. Susan Sellers, Hlne Cixous
55. Wes Sharrock and Rupert Read, Kuhn
56. David Silverman, Harvey Sacks
57. Dennis Smith, Zygmunt Bauman
58. James Smith, Terry Eagleton
59. Nicholas H. Smith, Charles Taylor
60. Felix Stalder, Manuel Castells
61. Geoffrey Stokes, Popper
62. Georgia Warnke, Gadamer
63. James Williams, Lyotard
64. Jonathan Wolff, Robert Nozick

Copyright Jean-Pierre Couture 2016

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First published in 2016 by Polity Press

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Couture, Jean-Pierre, 1975

Sloterdijk / Jean-Pierre Couture.

pages cm. (Key contemporary thinkers)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7456-6380-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 0-7456-6380-X (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7456-6381-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 0-7456-6381-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947 I. Title.

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For Roman, sun of December

I could not have written this book without the support of a special circle of friends, colleagues, and students. First, I would like to thank Emma Hutchinson and David Winters of Polity for positive initial contact with regard to the book proposal, and Pascal Porcheron, also of Polity, for his patience, trust, and work on the production of the manuscript.

The earliest version of this book was tentatively discussed in a seminar held at La Casa Obscura in Montral. Philippe-David Blanchette, Marc-Olivier Castagner, Hubert Gendron-Blais, Robert Hbert, Simon Hogue, Simon Labrecque, and Sylvain Munger offered, on those occasions, brilliant comments that helped me rethink it.

I would like to express my gratitude to my translator, Richard Ashby, who was also part of that seminar and whose expertise, diligence, and patience added considerably to my confidence about the project. A very special thanks goes to my Masters students Alex Del Duca and Jonah Clifford, who carefully read and commented on the advanced version; the final product is the better for it.

I must also acknowledge the beneficial influence of my old friend and supervisor Jean-Marc Piotte, without whose example and encouragement I would not have considered becoming a professor. It was under his tutelage that I developed a better work ethic and a sense of political and intellectual commitment.

Many students, too, have provided me with kind words over the last few years, and I would like to thank them: Frdrique Blanger, Laurence Bernier-Renaud, Caroline Brouillette, Ducakis Dsinat, Xavier Dionne, Nicholas DuBois, Mlanie Dufour, Anas Elboujdani, Jean-Philip Guy, Isabelle Htu, David B. Hyppia, Susan Kim, Jonathan Lalande-Bernatchez, Rmi Latulippe, Dylan Peaks, Guillaume Poirier, Lana Rackovi, and Maxime Wawanoloath. Appreciation also goes to the office staff of my department, Gail Petrin and Sylvie Lachapelle, who bring much life and spirit to our milieu.

I must not forget to mention Sophie Bernard-Pich, Mathieu Boislard, Nathalie Burlone, Anne-Marie D'Aoust, Gabrielle Gauvin, David Grondin, Yves Lavoie, Marie Leahey, Jean-Charles Saint-Louis, and Patrick Sncal. I warmly thank you all for your humor, lust for life, and precious friendship.

I recognize that this research would not have been possible without the financial assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It would have been simply impossible without colleagues such as Christian Rouillard and Micheline Lessard, who fought for my academic freedom at the University of Ottawa in recent years. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to them.