At the Glass Ceiling: Hermeneutic Ekstasis http://themutabletruth.wordpress.com We are simply not capable of continuing the old cosmology of ancient Europe that rested on equating the house and home with the world. Classical metaphysics is a phantasm on an implicit motif that was highlighted in only a few places, e.g., by Hegel and Heidegger, namely that the world must itself be construed as having the character of a house and that people in Western culture should be grasped not only as mortals, but also as house residents. Their relation to the world as a whole is that of inhabitants in a crowded building called cosmos. So the questions are, 'Why should modern thought bid goodbye to this equation of world and house? Why do we need a new image in order to designate how modern man lives in social and architectural containers? - Peter Sloterdijk Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:28:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/0959df68de99e54119467060bd8c185a?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png At the Glass Ceiling: Hermeneutic Ekstasis http://themutabletruth.wordpress.com