[eBook Code] The Aesthetic Imperative (eBook Code, 1st)

Contents

I. WORLD OF SOUND
La musique retrouvée 3
Remembrance of Beautiful Politics 15
Where Are We When We Hear Music? 27 

II. IN THE LIGHT
Clearing and Illumination. Notes on the Metaphysics, Mysticism and Politics of Light 49
Illumination in the Black Box: On the History of Opacity 61

III. DESIGN
The Right Tool for Power: Observations on Design as the Modernization of Competence 83
On the Charisma of Symbols 97
For a Philosophy of Play 100

IV. CITY AND ARCHITECTURE
The City and its Negation: An Outline of Negative Political Theory 113
Architects Do Nothing But ‘Inside Theory’: Peter Sloterdijk in conversation with Sabine Kraft and Nikolaus Kuhnert 141
For a Participatory Architecture - Notes on the Art of Daniel Libeskind with reference to Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Valéry 174

V. CONDITIO HUMANA
Essay on the Life of the Artist: Heretics *Wastrels* Falls/Cases* Inhabitants 185
Confessions of a Loser 192
Minima Cosmetica - An Essay on Self-Aggrandizement 197

VI. MUSEUM
The Museum: School of Disconcertment 221
World Museum and World’s Fair 231

VII. ART SYSTEM
‘I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself’ 249
Art is folding into itself 253
Emissaries of Violence - On the Metaphysics of Action Cinema 265
Good-For-Nothing Returns Home or The End of an Alibi - and A Theory of the End of Art 280
Afterword by Peter Weibel: Sloterdijk and the Question of Aesthetics 304

Notes 320

Publication Sources 334