The Aesthetic Imperative
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In as much as Sloterdijk expands his own methods of defamiliarization to include the observation of artworks and...
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 makes his way through the fields of the visible and invisible, the audible and inaudible – the historical arc of his observations stretches from Antiquity to Hollywood.
In as much as Sloterdijk expands his own methods of defamiliarization to include the observation of artworks and movements, all the objects appear in a different light – and with his perspicacious, pugnacious spirit he leads us far away from the well-worn paths of what we have come to expect from art commentary. This major philosopher’s concern with the most varied phenomena of aesthetics here turns into a playful yet serious consideration of art and the arts themselves.
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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...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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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If You Have Never Thought Grey
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The State Takes Off Its Kid Gloves
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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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...
Rules for the Human Zoo
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Coming to the World – Coming to Language
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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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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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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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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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Suspended in Thought
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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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In the World Interior of Capital
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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...
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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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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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Critique of Cynical Reason
In 1983, two centuries after the publication of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, another philosophical treatise—polemical in nature, with a title that consciously and disrespectfully...
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