Peter Sloterdijk

German philosopher (born 1947) · Germany · Academics

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Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher and cultural theorist. He was a professor of philosophy and media theory at and Rector from 2001 to 2015 of the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design. He co-hosted the German television show Das Philosophische Quartett from 2002 until 2012.

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2017Helmuth Plessner AwardAward2013Ludwig-Börne-PreisAward2010Berliner BärAward2008Cicero Orator PrizeAwardLeipzig International Mendelssohn PrizeAwardPrix Européen de l'Essai Charles VeillonAward2005Austrian Decoration for Science and ArtAwardSigmund Freud PrizeAward1999Friedrich-Märker-PreisAward1993Ernst Robert Curtius AwardAward1987“In our thinking there is no longer any spark of the uplifting flight of concepts or of the ecstasies of understanding. We are enlightened, we are apathetic.”In their wordsp. xxviRead the whole statement

“Our lethargic modernity certainly knows how to “think historically,” but it has long doubted that it lives in a meaningful history.”In their wordsp. xxviiiRead the whole statement

“Does not an ingenuous contact with Kantian thinking, with philosophical thinking in general, contain the risk of exposing a young consciousness to a violent and sudden aging?”In their wordsp. xxxiRead the whole statement

“To be “reasonable” means to put oneself into a special, rarely happy relation to the sensuous.”In their wordsp. xxxiRead the whole statement

“Psychologically, present-day cynics can be understood as borderline melancholics, who can keep their symptoms of depression under control and can remain more or less able to work.”In their wordsp. 5Read the whole statement

“Philosophical” ideology critique is truly the heir of a great satirical tradition, in which the motif of unmasking, exposing, baring has served for aeons now as a weapon.”In their wordsp. 16Read the whole statement

1947Born26 June 1947

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In our thinking there is no longer any spark of the uplifting flight of concepts or of the ecstasies of understanding. We are enlightened, we are apathetic.
1987, p. xxvi, Own words
Knowledge is power.” This is the sentence that dug the grave of philosophy in the nineteenth century.
1987, p. xxvii, Own words
Our lethargic modernity certainly knows how to “think historically,” but it has long doubted that it lives in a meaningful history.
1987, p. xxviii, Own words