In the world interior of capital : for a philosophical theory of globalization / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

First part: on the emergence of the world system -- Of Grand narratives -- The wandering star -- Return to earth -- Globe time, world picture time -- Turn from the east, entrance into the homogeneous space -- Jules Verne and Hegel -- Waterworld: on the change of the central element in the modern age -- Fortuna, or: the metaphysics of chance -- Risk-taking -- Delusion and time: on capitalism and telepathy -- The invention of subjectivity - Primary disinhibition and its advisers -- Irreflexive energies: the ontology of the headstart -- Nautical ecstasies -- `Corporate identity' on the high seas, parting of minds -- The basic movement: money returns -- Between justifications and assurances: on terran and maritime thought -- Expedition and truth -- The signs of the explorers: on cartography and imperial name magic -- The pure outside -- Theory of the pirate: the white terror --

The modern age and the new land syndrome americanology 1 -- The five canopies of globalization: aspects of european space exportation -- The poetics of the ship's hold -- Onboard clerics: the religious network -- The book of vice-kings -- The library of globalization -- The translators -- Second part: the grand interior -- Synchronous world -- The second ecumene -- The immunological transformation: on the way to thin-walled `societies' -- Believing and knowing: in hoc signo (sc. globi) vinces -- Post-history -- The crystal palace -- The dense world and secondary disinhibition: terrorism as the romanticism of the pure attack -- Twilight of the perpetrators and the ethics of responsibility: the cybernetic erinyes -- The capitalist world interior: rainer maria rilke almost meets adam smith -- Mutations in the pampering space -- Revaluation of all values: the principle of abundance --

The exception: anatomy of a temptation americanology 2 -- The uncompressible, or: the rediscovery of the extended -- In praise of asymmetry -- The heavenly and the earthly left.

Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously the historical and philosophical consequences of the notion of the earth as a globe, arriving at the thesis that what is praised or decried as globalization is actually the end phase in a process that began with the first circumnavigation of the earth - and that one can already discern elements of a new era beyond globalization.--Back cover.