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“You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray”, declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you’re not a philosopher if you have never thought gray. This simple four-letter word signifies much more than a quasi-neutral color lying between black...
The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within...
The core of what we refer to as ‘the project of modernity’ is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control, and hence it is based on a ‘kinetic utopia’: the movement of the world as a whole reflects the implementation of our plans for...
In his Critique of Cynical Reason, Peter Sloterdijk pursued an enlightenment of the Enlightenment in both its beginnings and the present. After God is dedicated to the theological enlightenment of theology. It ranges from the period when gods reigned, through the rule...
When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian...
In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in...
In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and...
One can rightly say of Peter Sloterdijk that each of his essays and lectures is also an unwritten book. That is why the texts presented here, which sketch a philosophical physiognomy of Martin Heidegger, should also be characterized as a collected renunciation of...
Peter Sloterdijk’s reputation as one of the most original thinkers of our time has grown steadily since the early 1980s. This volume of over thirty conversations and interviews spanning two decades illuminates the multiple interconnections of his life and work. In these...
In this short book Peter Sloterdijk clarifies his views on religion and its role in pre-modern and modern societies. He begins by returning to the Mount Sinai episode in the Book of Exodus, where he identifies the emergence of what he calls the ?Sinai Schema?. At the...
The conflicts between the three great monotheistic religions ? Christianity, Judaism and Islam ? are shaping our world more than ever before. In this important new book Peter Sloterdijk returns to the origins of monotheism in order to shed new light on the conflict of...
Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously the historical and...
In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance...
Habitée par un demi-milliard de personnes, refuge convoité pour d'innombrables migrants, l'Europe cherche depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale une nouvelle définition pour elle-même et pour ses peuples. Elle a réussi, sous la forme de l’Union européenne, une...
La crise environnementale et énergétique a débuté quand le feu et le travail humain ont fusionné. Depuis la préhistoire jusqu'à l'anthropocène, des premiers gaspillages des ressources de surface (extinctions d'espèces dues à la chasse, feux de forêt, etc.) jusqu'à celui...
"On n’est pas un peintre tant qu’on n’a pas peint un gris." Ces mots de Cézanne, écrit Peter Sloterdijk, "mettent au défi de formuler une affirmation complémentaire : tant qu’on n’a pas pensé le gris, on n’est pas un philosophe". Ce nouvel essai relève le défi. Il en...
La religion, dans les temps archaïques, c’est un rituel et un sacrifice. Mais depuis l’Antiquité, ce sont des procédés littéraires plus ou moins élaborés, le plus souvent poétiques, qui rapportent les actions, paroles et pensées des dieux. Pourquoi avons-nous fait...
L’Europe est inquiète, l’Europe va voter. C’est le moment d’écouter la parole du plus grand philosophe européen actuel, connu pour sa pensée vigoureuse et ses idées iconoclastes. En quatre essais sur les thèmes de l’immigration, du Brexit, de la cohésion sociale et de...
Voici l'un des livres les plus importants de Peter Sloterdijk, l'auteur de Colère et temps et de Tu dois changer ta vie ! Il tire son titre du mot célèbre de Mme de Pompadour et propose une réflexion sur une société incapable d'assurer et d'assumer la transmission du...
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