User:Jahsonic/I finally have a copy of Sferen in my hands
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In 2009, I finally had a copy of Spheres in my hands.
I posted a picture on Tumblr, with the 'easter eggs' of het waterzuiveringsstation in the background and wrote:
Sferen, a Dutch translation of Spheres I and II, with a detail of two lovers in a bubble from the The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch on the cover.
The detail is the so-called couple in amniotic bubble, "showing nudes cavorting within a transparent sphere. What appear to be cracks in the sphere, may forecast the fragility of joyful passion. The figures's arms are entwined, while the female's head bends towards the male's attentive mouth. Their innocence contrasts with the atmosphere of the right-hand panel, where human figures are depicted in shame of their nakedness."(Belting)
Sloterdijk first caught my attention when stumbling on his arse comments.
- "The arse seems to be condemned to live in the dark. Among the different parts of our body, it leads the life of a tramp. It truly is the idiot of the family. Yet it would be a miracle if this black sheep of the body did not have a ready opinion of the events taking place in higher regions, just like those who have been rejected by society often express the most sober views of it." -- Critique of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk
This book had me laughing on the second page when Sloterdijk adds an imaginary plaque on Plato's (the original one is "let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors."), titled "let no man unwilling to engage in love affairs with other visitors enter my doors," thereby filling the world with an embodied philosophy, one which does not deny Eros.
See also
- let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors
- User:Jahsonic/Notes on Foam, Volume III of Sloterdijk's Spheres
- In my hands
