Great news comes today from Stuart Elden at his always insightful blog: Progressive Geographies (http://progressivegeographies.wordpress.com).
Quoting Stewart:
In his comments on the Sloterdijk review, Peter Gratton ends by suggesting:
It might have done Sloterdijk a favor to publish this work after the forthcoming English translations of the three volumes of Spheres.
In this he’s absolutely right. To be honest, I doubt anyone is going to get why Sloterdijk is worthwhile, and why it’s worth putting up with the problems and politics, until that is accessible. (They still may not, of course.) Or perhaps his book on globalisation, which takes a chunk of Spheres II and develops it. Both are coming out in English, but with Semiotext(e) for Spheres and Polity for The Inner-world of Capital. And that’s the problem that I think part explains the order of translation – different publishers get rights to different books, and they come out in slightly odd order. Polity and Semiotext(e) both tested the water with shorter works first; as far as I know Columbia University Press who published Rage and Time just got the rights to that – I will be happily corrected. His earlier books on cynical reason and Nietzsche were both with University of Minnesota Press. I know Continuum were trying to get some rights, but have been unsuccesful as far as I know. And then Springer published that little pamphlet on the theory of the post-war period.
If the Gratton link didn’t come through, please use here:
http://philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/ndpr-article-on-sloterdijks-rage-and-time-a-psychopolitical-investigation/
