El imperativo estético

In this book, Peter Sloterdijk touches on all modern genres of the arts, from music to architecture, from the use of light to the living arts, from design to typography. It travels through all the fields of the visible and the invisible, of the audible and the inaudible, in a historical arc that stretches from Antiquity to Hollywood. When he applies his particular method of distancing himself from discourse to the contemplation of works and artistic genres, the objects described appear suddenly in a different light, and with his awakened and combative sense of actuality he leads us far, very far from the beaten path of artistic commentary. Throughout its pages unfolds the most singular, at the same time jovial and serious way, with which the great German philosopher analyzes the most disparate aesthetic phenomena, characterizing the aesthetics of art and the arts.