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The stirring speech given by Peter Sloterdijk in Lucerne in October 2022.From time immemorial, humanity has had to organize their “metabolism with nature.” For Marx, the most important factor in this process was labor. When Prometheus, according to the myth, brought fire to earth, another crucial in... Read More about Prometheus's Remorse: From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and retune... Read More about Out of the World (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Peter Sloterdijk is among the most acclaimed and widely read philosophers of the past half-century. Called "Germany's most controversial thinker" by the New Yorker, he has challenged and provoked readers worldwide with extraordinarily ambitious and wide-ranging works of philosophical and cultural cr... Read More about The Terrible Children of Modernity (Wellek Library Lectures)

Peter Sloterdijk is among the most acclaimed and widely read philosophers of the past half-century. Called "Germany's most controversial thinker" by the New Yorker, he has challenged and provoked readers worldwide with extraordinarily ambitious and wide-ranging works of philosophical and cultural cr... Read More about The Terrible Children of Modernity (Wellek Library Lectures)

In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and retune... Read More about Out of the World (Cultural Memory in the Present)

From the German Romantics to the Beats and beyond: how the West has imagined India In 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians, inaugurating the West's fascination with India and its extraordinary civilization. Beginning with Schlegel a... Read More about On the Paths of Enlightenment: The Myth of India in Western Culture 1808-2017