Blowing Bubbles
Bubbles: Spheres, Volume 1: Microspherology
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| Peter Sloterdijk; drawing by Siegfried Woldhe |
...In “The Plunge and the Turn,” the first chapter of Not Saved: Essays After Heidegger, the German philosopher, polemicist, and sometime television host Peter Sloterdijk recalls walking around the campus of Bard College, “one of the academic institutions in the state of New York favored by students from the upper-middle classes,” and discovering “almost accidentally” a cemetery containing the grave of Hannah Arendt. At the time, he reports, “I was in the process of beginning to contemplate whether I should take up the expected call for a professorship in Germany.” These ruminations on his future career path led Sloterdijk to consider the different places occupied by professors in “the Old World” and “the United States of America, the hyperbolic European colony.” ...NYRB
NYRB held in Arts and Literature at the Central Library