Inhaltsangabe* Introduction: On the Anthropotechnic Turn * The Planet of the Practising * 1 The Command from the Stone * Rilke's Experience * 2 Remote View of the Ascetic Planet * Nietzsche's Antiquity Project * 3 Only Cripples Will Survive * Unthan's Lesson * 4 Last Hunger Art * Kafka's Circus Art * 5 Parisian Buddhism * Cioran's Exercises * Transition: Religions Do Not Exist * From Pierre de Coubertin to L. Ron Hubbard * I The Conquest of the Improbable * For an Acrobatic Ethics * Programme * 1 Height Psychology * The Doctrine of Upward Propagation and the Meaning of 'Over' * 2 'Culture Is a Monastic Rule' * Twilight of the Life Forms, Disciplinics * 3 Sleepless in Ephesus * On the Demons of Habit and Their Taming Through First Theory * 4 Habitus and Inertia * On the Base Camps of the Practising Life * 5 Cur Homo Artista * On the Ease of the Impossible * II Exaggeration Procedures * Backdrop: Retreats into Unusualness * 6 First Eccentricity * On the Separation of the Practising and Their Soliloquies * 7 The Complete and the Incomplete * How the Spirit of Perfection Entangles the Practising in Stories * 8 Master Games * Trainers as Guarantors of the Art of Exaggeration * 9 Change of Trainer and Revolution * On Conversions and Opportunistic Turns * III The Exercises of the Moderns * Prospect: The Re-Secularization of the Withdrawn Subject * 10 Art with Humans * In the Arsenals of Anthropotechnics * 11 In the Auto-Operatively Curved Space * New Human Beings Between Anaesthesia and Biopolitics * 12 Exercises and Misexercises * The Critique of Repetition * Retrospective * From the Re-Embedding of the Subject to the Relapse into Total Care * Outlook

Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design and the author of many works including Critique of Cynical Reason.