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If You Have Never Thought Grey / Wer noch kein Grau gedacht hat
A Theory of Colour
Shortlisted for the Tractatus-Preis for philosophichal essay writing (Austria)
»Dasein means staying in a twilight of a global scale.«
»Dasein means staying in a twilight of a global scale.«
As long as you haven’t painted grey, Paul Cézanne once said, you are not a painter. When Peter Sloterdijk transports this notion into the realm of philosophy, as an unexplained assertion it might sound like a provocation at first. Why should philosophers think about a single colour instead of dealing with ethics, metaphysics or logic? But even preliminary historical research gives the intuition some plausibility: What colour are the shadows in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave?...
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As long as you haven’t painted grey, Paul Cézanne once said, you are not a painter. When Peter Sloterdijk transports this notion into the realm of philosophy, as an unexplained assertion it might sound like a provocation at first. Why should philosophers think about a single colour instead of dealing with ethics, metaphysics or logic? But even preliminary historical research gives the intuition some plausibility: What colour are the shadows in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave? Doesn’t philosophy, according to Hegel, always paint grisailles? And doesn’t Heidegger’s being-in-the-world imply existing in a diffuse shade of grey?
Peter Sloterdijk follows the grey thread through the history of philosophy, art and mentality. He examines the greying red of the German Democratic Republic, greyscale photography and hostile landscapes in literature. By exploring grey as a metaphor, as the indication of a mood and a display of political-moral ambiguity, he provides a multitude of captivating evidence for his book’s thesis.
Peter Sloterdijk follows the grey thread through the history of philosophy, art and mentality. He examines the greying red of the German Democratic Republic, greyscale photography and hostile landscapes in literature. By exploring grey as a metaphor, as the indication of a mood and a display of political-moral ambiguity, he provides a multitude of captivating evidence for his book’s thesis.
»Sloterdijk commands an overwhelming knowledge and interweaves this knowledge with his bright judgement, never limited by the status quo.« Daniel Kehlmann, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Sloterdijk plays with language, taking delight in brilliant […] expressions. Wherever you open the book, you will find sentences that inspire an embarrassing sense of envy. Sloterdijk’s style is […] unrivalled. […] A great book.« Michael Maar, Süddeutsche Zeitung
»Reading Sloterdijk means exploring untapped areas of knowledge and domains of thought that lie dormant.« Dirk Pilz, Frankfurter Rundschau
»Sloterdijk's forays ... do not add up to a handbook of the cultural history of the colour grey. Rather, they are an associative, sometimes eccentric lession in attention that invites us to look at the familiar from new perspectives. ... All of this attests to the author's stupendous erudition ...« Thomas Ribi, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»By the end of the book one feels enriched, even delighted. How glamorous grey can be, how much silver it contains!« Gerrit Bartels, Der Tagesspiegel
»Sloterdijk is a skilled collector and arranger as well as a brilliant master craftsman of words.« Jörg Magenau, Philosophie Magazin
»Sloterdijk plays with language, taking delight in brilliant […] expressions. Wherever you open the book, you will find sentences that inspire an embarrassing sense of envy. Sloterdijk’s style is […] unrivalled. […] A great book.« Michael Maar, Süddeutsche Zeitung
»Reading Sloterdijk means exploring untapped areas of knowledge and domains of thought that lie dormant.« Dirk Pilz, Frankfurter Rundschau
»Sloterdijk's forays ... do not add up to a handbook of the cultural history of the colour grey. Rather, they are an associative, sometimes eccentric lession in attention that invites us to look at the familiar from new perspectives. ... All of this attests to the author's stupendous erudition ...« Thomas Ribi, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»By the end of the book one feels enriched, even delighted. How glamorous grey can be, how much silver it contains!« Gerrit Bartels, Der Tagesspiegel
»Sloterdijk is a skilled collector and arranger as well as a brilliant master craftsman of words.« Jörg Magenau, Philosophie Magazin
»Sloterdijk commands an overwhelming knowledge and interweaves this knowledge with his bright judgement, never limited by the status quo.« Daniel Kehlmann, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Sloterdijk plays with language, taking delight in brilliant […] expressions. Wherever you open the book, you will find sentences that inspire an embarrassing sense of envy. Sloterdijk’s style is […] unrivalled. […] A great book.« Michael Maar,...
»Sloterdijk plays with language, taking delight in brilliant […] expressions. Wherever you open the book, you will find sentences that inspire an embarrassing sense of envy. Sloterdijk’s style is […] unrivalled. […] A great book.« Michael Maar,...
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2022, 286 pages
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Peter Sloterdijk
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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
Author
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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Year of Publication: 2023
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2023
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...
Year of Publication: 2023
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2023
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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Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (CC Live)
Year of Publication: 2021
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2021
The State Takes Off Its Kid Gloves
Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most famous and most influential thinkers of our time. His philosophical diagnoses of the times and political interventions are prepared to take risks, confrontational and as illuminating as they are surprising. This became evident more so than ever last year when he was asked about the pandemic and its social, political and existential consequences in numerous...
Year of Publication: 2020
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2020
Making the Heavens Speak
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...
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Year of Publication: 2018
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2018
New Lines and Days
After a longer time (of reflection), Peter Sloterdijk has succumbed to the inevitable. No one who has read Lines and Days, the previous book that was hyped by readers and reviewers, could resist demanding a sequel. Nor the temptation to make the private public, and vice versa.
His notes stand out from those of the blogger and internet-diary writers through their analytical...
Year of Publication: 2017
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2017
Rules for the Human Zoo
That the domestication of the human being is the great unthought idea from which humanism, from antiquity to the present day, averted its eyes – the mere acknowledgment of this fact is enough to get...
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Year of Publication: 2017
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2017
Coming to the World – Coming to Language
Each year, the Goethe University Frankfurt invites a prominent figure from the world of letters to deliver a series of lectures on poetics. In the summer of 1988, it was Peter Sloterdijk. With...
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Year of Publication: 2017
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2017
After God
In his epoch-making book Spheres, which describes globalization from its beginnings to its state at the end of the 20th century, Peter Sloterdijk characterizes God as the »ultimate source...
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Year of Publication: 2016
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2016
The Schelling-Project
A group of five ageing people, three men, two women, applies to the German Research Foundation for financial support of a project entitled »Between Biology and the Humanities: On the...
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Year of Publication: 2016
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2016
What Happened in the 20th Century?
With the six essays contained in this volume, Peter Sloterdijk builds on his monumental Spheres-trilogy which dealt with nothing less than an explanation of the development of...
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Year of Publication: 2014
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2014
The Aesthetic Imperative
In his examinations Peter Sloterdijk touches upon all classical and modern types of art, from music to architecture, from the art of lighting to the art of movement, from design to typography. He...
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Year of Publication: 2014
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2014
Modernity’s Enfants Terribles
What drives humanity? Are we progressing from a lower state to a higher one? Is progress guided by the lessons of history? Should history be understood as progress towards and in the conception of...
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Year of Publication: 2013
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2013
In the Shadow of Mount Sinai
The reflections on the theory and history of religion which Peter Sloterdijk outlined in Gottes Eifer (2007; translated as God’s Zeal, Polity 2009) and Du mußt dein Leben...
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Year of Publication: 2012
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2012
Lines and Days
A radically personal view on the first decade of the Twenty-First Century
Every morning for over four decades, Peter Sloterdijk kept a special kind of diary: in lined...
Every morning for over four decades, Peter Sloterdijk kept a special kind of diary: in lined...
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Year of Publication: 2011
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2011
Stress and Freedom
How are individual freedom and the greater good compatible today? In order to shed light on this subject, in his talk Peter Sloterdijk sketches the origin and the development of freedom and...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2010
Suspended in Thought
In his best-selling book, Du mußt dein Leben ändern Peter Sloterdijk highlighted the act of exercise/practice as crucial to the human condition. From this new perspective on human...
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Year of Publication: 2009
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2009
You Must Change Your Life
In his new long-format essay on the nature of humanity, Peter Sloterdijk criticizes the thesis of a return to religion.
It is not religion that is returning, but...
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Year of Publication: 2007
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2007
God's Zeal
The conflicts between the religions that have a common origin, i.e. the religions in the tradition of Abraham define our contemporary world to an unprecedented degree. In his essay, Peter...
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Year of Publication: 2006
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2006
Anger and Time
The word »anger« stands at the beginning of the first sentence of the European tradition started by the Iliad. There, it bodes no good – and is therefore held in high esteem as it also brings forth...
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Year of Publication: 2005
Peter SloterdijkYear of Publication: 2005
In the World Interior of Capital
Thanks to his capacity for building bridges between narrative and philosophizing, a characteristic feature of Peter Sloterdijk’s books, here at the beginning of the 21st century, we...
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