Books by Peter (Karlsruhe School of Design) Sloterdijk

One of the worlds leading philosophers shows how our preoccupation with motion and change is a defining feature of our modern, Western way of thinking.

First published in German as Nach Gott: Glaubens- und Unglaubensversuche, Suhrkamp Verlag 2017.

"In this new volume, philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the 20th century if we focus on events or ideologies. Rather, he argues that the predominant motif of the 20th century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now"--

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 response to a form of anxiety or stress.

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'.

In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion.

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 conflicts between the three great monotheistic religions - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are shaping our world more than ever before. This book examines the forms of conflict that arise between the three monotheisms by analyzing the basic possibilities stemming from anti-Paganism, anti-Judaism, anti-Islamism and anti-Christianism.

Offers a series of recontextualizations of Jacques Derrida's work by exploring the connections between Derrida and 7 major thinkers, including Hegel, Freud and Thomas Mann.