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Peter Sloterdijk

Born

in Karlsruhe, Germany

June 26, 1947

Website

http://www.petersloterdijk.net/

Genre

Philosophy, Nonfiction

Influences

Klaus Briegleb, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault ...more

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Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher, cultural theorist, television host and columnist. He is a professor of philosophy and media theory at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe.

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.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 5,786 ratings · 639 reviews · 105 distinct works • Similar authors

	Critique of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk, Andreas Huyssen (Foreword), Michael Eldred (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bubbles: Spheres I by Peter Sloterdijk, Wieland Hoban (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Must Change Your Life 4.13 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Normas para el parque humano by Peter Sloterdijk, Teresa Rocha Barco (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 389 ratings — published 1999 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation by Peter Sloterdijk, Mario Wenning (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2006 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology by Peter Sloterdijk, Wieland Hoban (Translator) 4.40 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1999 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Estrés y Libertad 3.77 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 2011 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization 3.95 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2004 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault by Peter Sloterdijk, Creston Davis (Foreword), Thomas Dunlap (Translator) 3.40 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2009 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nietzsche Apostle by Peter Sloterdijk, Steve Corcoran (Translator) 3.55 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Peter Sloterdijk

Sphären (3 books)
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Peter Sloterdijk,

Wieland Hoban (Translator)

4.33 avg rating — 874 ratings

Zeilen und Tage (3 books)
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Peter Sloterdijk

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نقد العقل الكلبي (2 books)
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Peter Sloterdijk,

ناجي العونلي (ترجمة وتقديم)

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Quotes by Peter Sloterdijk (?)

“How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.”
― Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason

tags: irony, parody, reasoning

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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, Regels voor het Mensenpark

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

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