Peter Sloterdijk

In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Something is indeed returning today - but the conventional wisdom that this is religion making its reappearance is insufficient to satisfy critical…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living properly. The numinous authority of form…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“In the wake of his new division of ascetic opinion, Nietzsche not only stumbles upon the fundamental meaning of the practising life…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-traumatic cost. Only such…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The lively thought-image of foam serves to recover the premetaphysical pluralism of world-inventions postmetaphysically. It helps us to enter the element of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“What appears in the former statue of Apollo, however, cannot simply be equated with the Olympian of the same name, who had…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Clinically speaking, hysteria is - not only among the religious - the ability to somatize figures of speech; from a philosophical perspective,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“As the following pages deal with the practising life, they lead - in accordance with their topic - to an expedition into…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Above all: only grant the suspicion that sport is a pastime for the most stupid as much space as it deserves, do…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise everything and everyone…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“A completely different aspect, however, the thoroughly incommensurable one, lies in the imposition of accepting that the torso sees me while I…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“I receive the reward for my willingness to participate in the object-subject reversal in the form of a private illumination - in…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“From the perspective of the radicals, the habitus basis of human existence is, as a whole, no more than a spiritually worthless…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Let me repeat: the stakes are high. We must confront one of the most massive pseudo-evidences in recent intellectual history: the belief,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“In this book, we will naturally be dealing primarily with the manifestations of the third level of immunity. I gather material on…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The hero of the following account, Homo immunologicus, who must give his life, with all its dangers and surfeits, a symbolic framework,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The notion that property is the means to all other means was ruled out by the new radicals. The deep seated ressentiment…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The novelty of the new, as noted earlier, stems from the unfolding of the known into larger, brighter, more richly contoured surfaces.…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“This background enables us to understand a fact that is symptomatic of the current phase of saturation: there are countless people who…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in…

— Peter Sloterdijk