Peter sloterdijk is a german philosopher and cultural theorist. Peter sloterdijk was born in the city of mannheim, in 1947. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Critique of cynical reason university of minnesota press. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which.
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Peter sloterdijk author of critique of cynical reason. Dec 04, 2014 the work of german philosopher peter sloterdijk offers one productive opening for taking seriously the air conditions of garners murder and the atmosphere of resistance that it generated. Peter sloterdijks most popular book is critique of cynical reason. His 1983 publication of critique of cynical reason published in english in 1988 became the bestselling german book of philosophy since world war ii. Society and space 2009, volume 27, pages 4157 abstract. Peter sloterdijk as first philosopher of globalization 3 sloterdijks broader method, again when it comes to the fore in works such as spheres, could be described as strangely phenomenological in very much the sense especially it has developed in the work of figures such as marion and nancy. Peter sloterdijks critique of cynical reason stirred both critical acclaim and consternation and attracted a wide readership, especially among those who had come of age in the 1960s. Books by peter sloterdijk author of critique of cynical reason. In the plunge and the turn, the first chapter of not saved. Sloterdijk responded, exasperated by assheuers interpretation of the text, which sloterdijk was not content to attribute to bad reading alone.
In this short book peter sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from ancient greece to the present day. Essays after heidegger, the german philosopher, polemicist, and sometime television host peter sloterdijk recalls walking around the campus of bard college, one of the academic institutions in the state of new york favored by students from the uppermiddle classes, and. But in this new book, the philosopher peter sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the 20th century if we focus on events and ideologies. Until then, war, as described by clausewitz and practiced by napoleon, involved attacking the adversarys vital function first. Sloterdijks finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture, in personal institutional settings.
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