The Terrible Children of Modernity
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The continued existence of civilization as we know it...
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 freedom?
Such out-dated questions and the corresponding incongruous answers to them tend to ignore the transition from one generation to the next, which now, at the beginning of the 21st century, is increasingly in danger.
The continued existence of civilization as we know it depends on the successful outcome of this transitional period, which is dominated in part by war and murder, and in part by scenarios in which the populations of entire continents are wiped out. Peter Sloterdijk’s new book is thus informed by extreme pessimism: a black book of the generations to come.
Modernity is characterised by the way the threads of tradition are continually severed and by the constant emergence of new vectors that will determine our progress into what is to come. As a result, individuals turn into »children of their times«, and in turn their children »break the mould«. Since modern parents tend to be labile civilisers, the formation of their offspring becomes a never-ending battle between potentially terrible parents and potentially terrible children.
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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...
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,...
English world rights (Semiotexte), Spanish world rights (Siruela), Catalan rights (Arcadia), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People's Publishing House), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relógio D’Água), Arabic world rights (Al Kamel), France (Payot), Italy (Marsilio), Denmark (Multivers), Norway (Cappelen Damm Akademisk), Croatia (Mizantrop)
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If You Have Never Thought Grey
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The State Takes Off Its Kid Gloves
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...
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...
France (Piranha)
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The Aesthetic Imperative
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In the Shadow of Mount Sinai
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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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In the World Interior of Capital
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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 I
Rejecting the...
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The Strong Reason for Being Together
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