STRESS AND FREEDOM

In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This geneal ogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise i n response to a form of anxiety or stress. Through a highly original reading of Rousseaus late Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Slote rdijk shows that, for Rousseau, the modern subject emerges as a subject free of all stress, unburdened by the cares of the world. Mo st of mod...[Read more]