Abstract

Peter Sloterdijk’s theory of the spheres is confronted with the idea that there is in it an erotic foundation that would determine to a great extent the understanding of the spherical cosmos. The argument resorts to the concepts of medieval spherical cardiality and erototope to demonstrate that the exegetical, hermeneutic, and sometimes mythological form that the Sloterdijkian account acquires, oriented in principle to explain the existence of Homo sapiens according to an ultra-technological foundation, could perhaps be better understood as an unthinkable phenomenology of the heart.