Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Sloterdijk's father was Dutch, his mother German. He studied philosophy, and history at the and the from 1968 to 1974. In 1975 he received his PhD from the. In the 1980s he worked as a freelance writer, and published his in 1983.

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He has since published a number of philosophical works acclaimed in Germany. Ed Rush And Optical Wormhole Rar. In 2001 he was named chancellor of the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe, part of the. His best-known Karlsruhe student and former assistant is MdB (Member of German Parliament) Dr Marc Jongen. In 2002 Sloterdijk began to co-host Im Glashaus: Das Philosophische Quartett ('In the Glass House: The Philosophical Quartet'), a show on the German television channel devoted to discussing key contemporary issues in-depth. Philosophical stance [ ] Sloterdijk rejects the existence of —body and soul, subject and object, culture and nature, etc.—since their interactions, 'spaces of coexistence', and common technological advancement create hybrid realities.

Sloterdijk's ideas are sometimes referred to as, and seek to integrate different components that have been, in his opinion, erroneously considered detached from each other. Consequently, he proposes the creation of an 'ontological constitution' that would incorporate all beings—humans, animals, plants, and machines. Philosophical style [ ] In the style of, 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, of whom he became a disciple in the late seventies). Taking a sociological stance, sees Sloterdijk's timely innovation at the beginning of the 21st century in having introduced the principles of into philosophy. Sloterdijk himself, viewing exaggeration to be required in order to catch attention, describes the way he presents his ideas as 'hyperbolic' ( hyperbolisch). Individual works [ ] Critique of Cynical Reason [ ] The Kritik der zynischen Vernunft, published by in 1983 (and in English as, 1988), became the best-selling work on philosophy in the German language since the and launched Sloterdijk's career as an author.

Spheres [ ] The trilogy Spheres is the philosopher's. The first volume was published in 1998, the second in 1999, and the last in 2004. Spheres is about 'spaces of coexistence', spaces commonly overlooked or taken for granted that conceal information crucial to developing an understanding of the human. The exploration of these spheres begins with the basic difference between and other animals: the biological and comfort of the mother's, which humans try to recreate through science, ideology, and religion. From these microspheres ( relations such as -) to macrospheres ( macro-uteri such as nations or ), Sloterdijk analyzes spheres where humans try but fail to dwell and traces a connection between vital crisis (e.g., emptiness and detachment) and crises created when a sphere shatters. Sloterdijk has said that the first paragraphs of Spheres are 'the book that should have written', a companion volume to, namely, 'Being and Space'.