Papers by Eduardo Mendieta
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2009
This introductory essay provides a background to the writings of Peter Sloterdijk. It begins with... more This introductory essay provides a background to the writings of Peter Sloterdijk. It begins with a discussion of writings translated into English in the late 1980s—the Critique of Cynical Reason and Thinker on Stage—but then shows how Sloterdijk's work has developed and changed over the last two decades. Particular attention is paid to his writings on Europe and politics; the three-volume book Sphären [Spheres]; and his most recent writings on globalisation. The suggestion is that with the extensive forthcoming programme of translations and renewed interest in his work the scene is set for an effective ‘second coming’ of Sloterdijk. This theme issue of Society and Space contributes to that work of translation and interpretation.
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Berlin Jouranl of Critical Theory, 2024
Dialectic of Enlightenment is without question one of classics of Frankfurt School Critical Theor... more Dialectic of Enlightenment is without question one of classics of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. In this essay the author sets out to evaluate its merits, demerits, and how well it has aged. Thus, the author postulates how it could be written after the critiques of the book's Eurocentrism, inattention to class and in general the material conditions of the reproduction of life, as well as its lack of concern of discussion of race and racism, other than Anti-Semitism. The text lays out several possible "fragments" that could be the basis for an "updated" version of the Dialectic.
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