What happened in the 20th century?

Translation of: Was geschah im 20. Jahrhundert?

Includes bibliographical references.

The anthropocene - a stage in the process on the margins of the Earth's history? -- From the domestication of the human being to the civilizing of cultures : answering the question of whether humanity is capable of taming itself -- The ocean experiment : from nautical globalization to a general ecology -- The synchronized world : philosophical aspects of globalization -- What happened in the 20th century? Toward a critique of extremist reason -- The thinker in the haunted castle : on Derrida's interpretation of dreams -- Deep observation : towards a philosophy of the Space Station -- The permanent Renaissance : the Italian novella and news of modernity -- Heidegger's politics : postponing the end of history -- Odysseus the sophist : on the birth of philosophy from the spirit of travel stress -- Almost sacred text : essay on the Constitution -- The other logos, or the reason of cunning : on the intellectual history of the indirect.

"In this new volume, philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the 20th century if we focus on events or ideologies. Rather, he argues that the predominant motif of the 20th century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now"--