“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with the language an altered perspective, for a group of phenomena that tradition tended to refer to with such… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“In the wake of his new division of ascetic opinion, Nietzsche not only stumbles upon the fundamental meaning of the practising life for the development of styles of existence or 'cultures'. He puts his finger on what he sees as… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look more closely at the work of deformation that… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“A completely different aspect, however, the thoroughly incommensurable one, lies in the imposition of accepting that the torso sees me while I observe it… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“In this book, we will naturally be dealing primarily with the manifestations of the third level of immunity. I gather material on the biography… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious battle, today's children of the banalized… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these struggles is… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“It is not sufficient, he emphasized, to colour (colorare) the mind with wisdom; it must be pickled (macerare) in it, as it were, soaked… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“What appears in the former statue of Apollo, however, cannot simply be equated with the Olympian of the same name, who had to ensure… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“This much should be clear by now: the term 'renaissance' can only remain fruitful and demanding as long as it refers to a far-reaching… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“As the following pages deal with the practising life, they lead - in accordance with their topic - to an expedition into the little-explored… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Something is indeed returning today - but the conventional wisdom that this is religion making its reappearance is insufficient to satisfy critical inquiries. Nor… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in a diction… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
