In his three-volume work Spheres, Peter Sloterdijk undertakes nothing less than an attempt to tell the story of humanity. In doing so, he starts from the simple question: Where do people live after they know that they are at home on a sphere, a globe? In order to approach an answer to this question, Peter Sloterdijk develops the concept of spheres and spans a fascinating arc, rich in perspective, from the earliest cultures to our global age.This first book of this sphere trilogy is about micro-spherical quantities called bubbles. They form the basic molecules of the strong relationship. Peter Sloterdijk's analysis sets out on the never-before undertaken task of recounting the epic of dichotomies always already lost, yet never erased without trace. "We traverse, with the insight of our inevitable conceptual helplessness as our only sure companion, landscapes of pre-objective Dasein and antecedent relations. As we travel through the evasive underworld of the inner world, the phantom image of a fluid and auratic universe unfolds, like a sounding map - spun entirely of resonances and suspended matter; in it remains to be sought the prehistory of the psychic."