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Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophyfor which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijkdevelops a radically new account of globalization at the beginningof the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously thehistorical and philosophical consequences of the notion of theearth as a globe, arriving at the thesis that what is praised ordecried as globalization is actually the end phase in a processthat began with the first circumnavigation of the earth D andthat one can already discern elements of a new era beyondglobalization. In the end phase of globalization, the world system completed itsdevelopment and, as a capitalist system, came to determine allconditions of life. Sloterdijk takes the Crystal Palace in London,the site of the first world exhibition in 1851, as the mostexpressive metaphor for this situation.