Saturday, January 19, 2019

Peter Sloterdijk (b 1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sloterdijk

Philosophical style

In the style of Nietzsche, Sloterdijk remains convinced that contemporary philosophers have to think dangerously and let themselves be "kidnapped" by contemporary "hyper-complexities": they must forsake our present humanist and nationalist world for a wider horizon at once ecological and global. Sloterdijk's philosophical style strikes a balance between the firm academicism of a scholarly professor and a certain sense of anti-academicism (witness his ongoing interest in the ideas of Osho, of whom he became a disciple in the late seventies).Taking a sociological stance, Andreas Dorschel sees Sloterdijk's timely innovation at the beginning of the 21st century in having introduced the principles of celebrity into philosophy. Sloterdijk himself, viewing exaggeration to be required in order to catch attention, describes the way he presents his ideas as "hyperbolic" (hyperbolisch).

see also

https://lareviewofbooks.org/entitled-opinions/not-man-dynamite-peter-sloterdijk-nietzsche/#!

https://progressivegeographies.com/2014/04/14/where-to-start-with-reading-peter-sloterdijk/