Unchallenged, capitalism spans the globe, yet it treats its inhabitants differently: While one and a half billion winners of globalization inhabit a comfort zone, a "world interior" whose boundaries are invisible but as hard and unwelcoming as the walls of London's Crystal Palace, the site of the first World Exhibition in 1851, twice that number of people stands excluded at the door. Peter Sloterdijk philosophizes about this and tells the story, and thanks to his fearlessness in style and content, he manages to say something fundamentally significant about globalization even in the 21st century. Following the great success of the Spheres Trilogy, this is the next major work and venture by Peter Sloterdijk. Peter Sloterdijk, born in 1947, is a professor of aesthetics and philosophy at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe and teaches at the Academy of.