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 Problem of the Development of Pullulating Sexuality from the Hominid-Female to the Homo-sapiens-Women In Reference to Evolutionary Theory With Constant Consideration of the Nature Philosophy of German Idealism«. According to one of the female participants, »vita femina« would have been a more appropriate title.

Peter Sloterdijk’s new novel departs from the letter of rejection the proposition receives, and develops as an epistolary novel, followed by a report on a working session among people equally interested in the subject.

In this novel, Peter Sloterdijk explores – in form and content – the anachronistic and the surprising. En route, one erotic story inevitably crosses over into the next: irony and directness enter a surprising liaison in the work of this philosophising writer and writing philosopher.