Sloterdijk's Spheres: Bubbles, Globes, and Foams (Stacks of Books Book 5)

Peter Sloterdijk, a contemporary German philosopher of culture, has written a trilogy entitled Spheres that gives the long story of the human love affair with a particular geometrical form: the enclosed space whose surface is equidistant from a center. He explains, along the way, our evolution from tribal villages to empires to a post-modern condition. In this essay Charlie Huenemann offers an overview of Sloterdijk's magnum opus in his own sly, laconic style.