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Peter Sloterdijk

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born

June 26, 1947 in Karlsruhe, Germany

gender

male

website

http://www.petersloterdijk.net/

genre

Philosophy, Nonfiction

influences

Klaus Briegleb, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Osho

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Peter Sloterdijk studied philosophy, Germanistics and history at the University of Munich. In 1975 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg. Since 1980 he has published many philosophical works, including the Critique of Cynical Reason. In 2001 he was named president of the State Academy of Design, part of the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. In 2002 he began to co-host Das Philosophische Quartett, a show on the German ZDF television channel devoted to discussing key issues affecting present-day society.

The Kritik der Zynischen Vernunft (Critique of Cynical Reason), published by Suhrkamp in 1983, became the best-selling philosophical book in the German language since the Second World War and launched Sloterdijk's career as...more

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Books by Peter Sloterdijk

Average rating: 4.11 · 342 ratings · 40 reviews · 60 distinct works

	Critique Of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Eldred (Illustrator) 4.35 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Normas para el parque humano 4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Esferas I 4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Du mußt dein Leben ändern: Über Religion, Artistik und Anthropotechnik 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Terror from the Air (Semiotext by Peter Sloterdijk, Amy Patton (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Zorn und Zeit: politisch-psychologischer Versuch 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Sferen by Peter Sloterdijk, Hans Driessen (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	El desprecio de las masas. Ensayo sobre las luchas culturales de la sociedad moderna 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Derrida, an Egyptian: On the Problem of the Jewish Pyramid 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Extranamiento del Mundo 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Peter Sloterdijk

“Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.”
― Peter Sloterdijk

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“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism
back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the
canon reveals a common love of inspiring messages. At the heart of humanism so
understood we discover a cult or club fantasy: the dream of the portentous solidarity
of those who have been chosen to be allowed to read. In the ancient world -- indeed,
until the dawn of the modern nation-states -- the power of reading actually did mean
something like membership of a secret elite; linguistic knowledge once counted in
many places as the provenance of sorcery. In Middle English the word `glamour'
developed out of the word `grammar'. The person who could read would be thought
easily capable of other impossibilities.”
― Peter Sloterdijk

tags: books , grammar , humanism , language , reading

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“La cultura de masas presupone el fracaso de todo intento de hacer de uno alguien interesante, lo que significa hacerse mejor que los otros”
― Peter Sloterdijk, El desprecio de las masas. Ensayo sobre las luchas culturales de la sociedad moderna

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