Abstract
This essay aims to offer a critical development of some of the implications that the ideas of Peter Sloterdijk give rise to, in order to explore and rethink the microclimatic and self-immunological dimensions of the old metaphysical schools in particular and of metaphysics in general. Nevertheless, in order to achieve this task it is necessary to free Sloterdijk's thought from certain phantasms that beset and undermine the most promising of his categories. The first part of the paper consists of an exposition of some of the basic ideas regarding bubbles and globes (thus, following the first two volumes of the trilogy Sphären); and contends that it is not possible to pass from the first (Blasen/bubbles) to the second (Globen/globes) without losing the most critical and subversive elements concerning the task of rethinking the social sciences in their micro-anthropological dimensions. In the second part, against the account of Western metaphysics espoused by Sloterdijk but taking on board some of his most suggestive insights, a radically different materialist perspective is put to the test. Finally, the third part offers a summary of our differences.
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