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Detours are the most direct paths to the centre. Peter Sloterdijk’s new work is proof of this theory: Located beyond topicality, theopoetics is, on first glance, about the attempts to make God or the gods speak stored in the library of humanity: either they speak themselves, directly, or their deeds and thinking are reproduced indirectly by the poets.
Therefore, the realisation is inevitable for Sloterdijk: Religions invoke more or less elaborate literary acts in their theopoetic...
Detours are the most direct paths to the centre. Peter Sloterdijk’s new work is proof of this theory: Located beyond topicality, theopoetics is, on first glance, about the attempts to make God or the gods speak stored in the library of humanity: either they speak themselves, directly, or their deeds and thinking are reproduced indirectly by the poets.
Therefore, the realisation is inevitable for Sloterdijk: Religions invoke more or less elaborate literary acts in their theopoetic founding documents, even if the accompanying dogmatics serve to make this fact forgotten. Religions are »literary products with whose help the authors compete for clients on the small market of the attention of the well-educated«.
Studying the poetic stylistic devices religions use in their narratives calls for a re-evaluation of religions that leaves behind Karl Marx’s theories. A person of stupendous reading, Sloterdijk gathers elements of a criticism of literary forms of representation as a criticism of dogmatic as well as theological documents by traversing history – and thus reaches the fiery nucleus of the present, in which narratives or facts and alternative facts are fighting each other.
»[Peter Sloterdijk] possesses a staggering knowledge and infuses this knowledge with his bright judgement that is never limited by the status quo.« Daniel Kehlmann, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Sloterdijk is a suitable author to make sense of religion under aesthetic aspects, as he is able to mediate between art and philosophy with great skill.« Johann Hinrich Claussen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»[Sloterdijk] is interested in the forms and strategies of religious speech. His theopoetics take the narrative and metaphorical worlds of the religions of this world at their word. Not only does he adopt the religion-critical leitmotif [… ,] he also integrates it into its theoretic conception with astonishing detailed knowledge.« Gregor Maria Hoff, DIE ZEIT
»... an amazing paraphrase of the history of theology combined with general social theory, and as excursive as this may be, the essayistic and aphoristic genius of the author is sparked by the vast reading time and again.« Johan Schloemann, Süddeutsche Zeitung
»Reading Sloterdijk means exploring unexploited fields of knowledge and fallow areas of thought.« Dirk Pilz, Frankfurter Rundschau
»What makes this book so exciting and worthwhile is how confidently and well-researched the philosopher traces [religion] through its cultural and historical development.« Ingo Arend, taz. die tageszeitung
»Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most radiant and most perspicacious intellectuals.« Eike Gebhardt, Deutschlandradio Kultur
»[Peter Sloterdijk] possesses a staggering knowledge and infuses this knowledge with his bright judgement that is never limited by the status quo.« Daniel Kehlmann, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Sloterdijk is a suitable author to make sense of religion under aesthetic aspects, as he is able to mediate between art and philosophy with great skill.« Johann Hinrich Claussen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»[Sloterdijk] is interested in the forms and strategies of...
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Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk was born in 1947 and is professor emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy at the Institute of Design in Karlsruhe. The unmistakable characteristic of Peter Sloterdijk’s thought and writings is the way he embeds current issues in a long history. This way, he succeeds in redefining the current human condition, visualizes it from a hitherto unknown perspective, and finds evidence for unexpected or unsought connections. His book Kritik der zynischen Vernunft is one of the biggest-selling philosophical books of the 20th century.
Peter Sloterdijk was born in 1947 and is professor emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy at the Institute of Design in Karlsruhe. The unmistakable...
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Lines and Days IV
In his notebooks, in which every morning he has been writing down his thoughts, documenting episodes, and commenting on the present for decades now, Peter...
The Prince and His Heirs
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Siruela), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Vozes), Portuguese rights (Relógio d’Agua), France (Payot), Italy (Raffaello Cortina), Netherlands (Boom), Denmark (Reitzels), Sweden (Ersatz), Romania (Trei)
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The Continent without Qualities
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Lines and Days III
For half a century, Peter Sloterdijk has been recording thoughts, experiences and comments on current events every morning; since 2012, he has published two books with dated notes from this trove – to the enthusiasm of his readers and critics: »Opinions that know how to amaze, to illuminate and enlighten.« (FAZ) The notes in the latest instalment of this...
Prometheus’s Remorse
From time immemorial, man has had to organise his »metabolism with nature«. For Marx, the most important factor in this process was labour. When Prometheus, according to the myth,...
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Coming to the World – Coming to Language
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The Aesthetic Imperative
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The Terrible Children of Modernity
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In the Shadow of Mount Sinai
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Lines and Days
Every morning for over four decades, Peter Sloterdijk kept a special kind of diary: in lined...
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Stress and Freedom
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You Must Change Your Life
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God's Zeal
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Anger and Time
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Spheres III
The concept of the sphere refers...
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Terror from the Air
According to Peter Sloterdijk, three criteria can be used to characterise the 20th century’s contribution to the history of civilisation as concisely as possible: the practise of terrorism, the...
Italy (Meltemi), Ukraine (IST Publishing)
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Sun and Death
In these insightful discussions with the scientific journalist and freelance author Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs, Peter Sloterdijk presents the red thread which runs through his work, explains the...
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Rules for the Human Zoo
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Spheres II
Rejecting the ...
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Spheres I
Rejecting the...
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The Strong Reason for Being Together
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