In the World Interior of Capital - 9780745647685

In the World Interior of CapitalTowards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization\nAuthor(s): Peter Sloterdijk, Wieland Hoban\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745647685, 978-0745647685\nSynopsis\nDisplaying 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 and that one can already discern elements of a new era beyond globalization.\n In the end phase of globalization, the world system completed its development and, as a capitalist system, came to determine all conditions of lif.