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| 04e3627 | If these civilizing potentials were to be generalized, then the homeotechnological era would be distinguished by the fact that in it spaces of leeway for errancy become narrower while spaces of leeway for gratification and positive association grow. Advanced biotechnology and nootechnology groom a refined, cooperative subject who plays with himself, who is formed in association with complex texts and hyper-complex contexts. Here emerges the.. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| c28af66 | The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to develop the conditions of possibility of a perfected 'society'. This provided the required setting for the aggressive social theology of the Modern Age to drive out the political theology of the imperial eras. What was the Enlightenment in its deep structure if not an attempt to translate the ancient rhyme on learning and suffering - mathein.. | enlightenment enlightenment-quotes optimization philosophy political-theology purgatory theology | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| bb81eec | Done was done and could not be changed, but the future was a different matter. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 298edfc | In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being into message' (more commonly, 'linguistic turn'). 'Being that can be be understood is language', Heidegger would later state - which conversely implies that language abandoned by being becomes mere chatter. | chatter heidegger language linguistic-turn rilke thing-poem | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 5b52ea7 | We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet's view of the mutilated body thus has nothing to do with the previous century's Romanticism of fragments and ruins; it is part of the breakthrough in modern art to the concept of the object that states itself with authority and the body that publicizes itself with authorization. | rilke rodin romanticism ruins sculpture thing-poem | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 95c5a31 | Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. | Babe Ruth | ||
| 5ee5f2d | The lively thought-image of foam serves to recover the premetaphysical pluralism of world-inventions postmetaphysically. It helps us to enter the element of a manifold thought undeterred by the nihilistic pathos that involuntarily accompanied a reflection disappointed by the monological metaphysics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explains once again what this liveliness is about: "God is dead" is affirmed as the good news .. | plurality-of-spheres post-metaphysics | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 96fc093 | What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect. | anticipation faith philosophy theology | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| e8cbf83 | aquellos grandes cuerpos politicos que antes llamabamos pueblos y hoy, a razon de una dudosa convencion semantica, denominamos "sociedades". Cuando decimos esta palabra solemos pensar en las poblaciones de los estados-nacion modernos, por tanto en unidades politicas grandes y muy grandes con volumenes demograficos de entre unos cuantos millones y mil millones de miembros. [...] el animal fabuloso "sociedad", [...] lo aceptamos como una cosa.. | nación pueblo sociedad | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 34b58e6 | As the activity culture of modernity constitutes itself against heteronomy, however, it will seek and find methods to place the commanding authority inside the hearer of the command themselves, so that they seem only to be obeying their inner voice when they submit. In this way, the fact of 'subjectivity' is demanded, created and fulfilled. What is meant, then, is the individual's co-determination of the authority that can give them command.. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| f509231 | A mi entender, hay que concebir los macrocuerpos politicos que llamamos sociedades en primer lugar como campos de fuerzas integradas por el estres, mas precisamente como sistemas de preocupaciones que se autoestresan y que se precipitan siempre hacia adelante. Estos sistemas solo existen en la medida que consiguen mantener su 'tonus' especifico de intranquilidad mientras los temas cambian diariamente y anualmente. Desde este punto de vista .. | filosofia política realidad sociedad teoría-de-los-macrocuerpos | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 159e59f | La primera forma de falta de libertad la experimentamos como opresion politica, la segunda como una opresion impuesta por aquella realidad que, con razon o sin, llamamos externa. [...] un tercer frente de la falta de libertad [...] resulta de la esclavizacion de los hombres por falsas imagenes de si mismos. [...] una revuelta antitiranica representa una "cooperacion de estres maximo" entre los dominados con la finalidad de eliminar una carg.. | estrés filosofia libertad política realidad revolución tiranía | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 02f6111 | El secreto de la modernidad se esconde en su capacidad de reclutar personas de cualquier origen y cualquier confesion para que formen parte de la mas grande de las campanas militares, la campana por el alivio progresivo del estres anonimo surgido de la opresion de lo real. | individualisml libertad modernidad occidente | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 4b6df04 | Eighty-five years after the storms of steel of the German-French fronts, sixty-five years after the peak of the Stalinist mass exterminations, fifty-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, and just as long after the bombardments of Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, the swinging back of the Zeitgeist to the preference for middling circumstances is to be understood as a tribute to normalization. In this regard, it has an unconditionally.. | zeitgeist | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| cf59f94 | The only real game -- I think -- in the world is baseball. | Babe Ruth | ||
| 0da3ca5 | Regarding the Platonic zoo and its new establishment, what is at issue is thus to learn for all the world whether between the population and the director ship there is merely a difference of degree or a difference in species. According to the first assumption, the distance between those who tend human beings and their fosterlings would obviously only be a contingent and pragmatic one--in this case, one could attribute to the herd the capaci.. | herds | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| e51c14a | Written culture itself, up to its recently implemented universal literacy, has had sharply selective effects. It has riven its host societies and formed a divide between literate and illiterate human beings, whose unbridgeability almost attained the firmness of a species differentiation. If one wished, despite Heidegger's dissuasions, to speak anthropologically again, then the human beings of historical times could be defined as the animals.. | selection willed | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 64ea4ff | I receive the reward for my willingness to participate in the object-subject reversal in the form of a private illumination - in the present case, as an aesthetic movedness. The torso, which has no place that does not see me, likewise does not impose itself - it exposes itself. It exposes itself by testing whether I will recognize it as a seer. Acknowledging it as a seer essentially means 'believing' in it, where believing, as noted above, .. | rilke thing-poem | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 399722f | Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an ostentatious amusement among princely and mercantile art patrons and their masterly suppliers (who established a first 'art system'), into a national, a European, indeed a planetary matter. In order to spread from the few to the many, the renaissance had to discard its humanistic exterior and reveal itself as .. | enlightenment philosophy rennaisance | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 4743c9f | In timp ce economia obisnuita, dictata de "erosul inferior", se bazeaza pe afectele vointei de a avea, economia thymotica se sprijina pe mandria celor care se simt liberi sa daruiasca. ... utilizarea thymotica a bogatiei in lumea anglo-saxona, si mai ales in SUA, a devenit un fapt civilizator garantat, in timp ce pe continentul european - din cauza unor traditii bazate pe increderea in stat, pe subventionism si pe mizerabilism - n-a reusit .. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| abc66ef | His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on the idea, as suggestive as it is fantastic, that antiquity has no need of repetitions enacted in subsequent periods, because it 'essentially' returns constantly on its own strength. In other words, antiquity - or the ancient - is not an overcome phase of cultural development that is only represented in the.. | ancient antiquity cultural-time friedrich-nietzsche modernity time | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 7143883 | This much should be clear by now: the term 'renaissance' can only remain fruitful and demanding as long as it refers to a far-reaching idea: that it is the fate of Europeans to develop life and forms of life according to and alongside the Christian definitions of life and forms of life. | rennaisance | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 4a82ef9 | Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of millennia and the ruins of morbid palaces, he was completely right to assume the triumphant expression of a discoverer. | ascetics friedrich-nietzsche nietzsche | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 0744ec0 | In mediul celor avuti, insatiabili, "interesul pentru arta nu e, de regula, decat fata duminicala a lacomiei"." | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| 4eef681 | Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in a diction of Olympian clarity. In the decisive passage he discusses the practice forms of that life-denial or world-weariness which, according to Nietzsche, exemplifies the morphological circle of sick asceticisms in general: 'The ascetic [of the priestly-sick type] treats life as a wrong pat.. | ascetics friedrich-nietzsche nietzsche priest | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 4542865 | The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of those who have begun to give their existence forms and contents under vertical tensions in countless programmes of effort, some more and some less strictly coded. When Nietzsche speaks of the ascetic planet, it is not because he would rather have been born on a more relaxed star. His antiquity-instinct tells him th.. | asceticism ascetics friedrich-nietzsche nietzsche practising | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 240ee56 | Din marele elan al transformarii egalitariste a umanitatii nu a ramas, pana la urma, mult mai mult decat autoprivilegierea nedisimulata a functionarilor - ca sa nu mai vorbim de paralizia, resemnarea si cinismul pe care le-a lasat mostenire. | comunism | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 95a46bd | The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, the phenomenon labelled the 'rebirth of antiquity' in the language regulations of art history entered a phase that fundamentally modified the motives of our identification with cultural relics from antiquity, even from the early classical period. H.. | asceticism ascetics friedrich-nietzsche nietzsche | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 17f53d9 | The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its large scale, the hardest to perceive, yet at once the most palpable and atmospherically powerful. Its counterpart is the informalization of spirituality - accompanied by its commercialization in the corresponding subcultures. The threshold values for these two tendencies provide the i.. | ascetics athletics popular-music spirituality sport | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| d89020e | In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to make something, let alone a great deal, of themselves. In humanistic epochs, by contrast, man is considered the being responsible for causing and doing everything - but consequently no longer has the right to make little or nothing of himself. Whether people now make nothing or much of themselves, they commit - according .. | ascetics god secular | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 13d0e7f | Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life is to take the minor things seriously. When minor things grow stronger, the danger posed by the main thing is contained; then climbing higher in the minor things means advancing in the main thing. | ascetics friedrich-nietzsche life-lessons life-philosophy nietzsche | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| b59cbb4 | A massa nao reunida e nao reunivel na sociedade pos-moderna nao possui mais, por essa razao, um sentimento de corpo e espaco proprios; ela nao se ve mais confluir e agir, nao sente mais sua natureza pulsante; nao produz mais um grito conjunto. Distancia-se cada vez mais da possibilidade de passar de suas rotinas praticas e indolentes para um agucamento revolucionario. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| cadfc5e | Cultele memoriei de orice natura, indiferent daca se prezinta in vesminte religioase, civilizatoare sau politice, trebuie privite... cu neincredere si asta fara exceptie: sub pretextul unei comemorari purificatoare, eliberatoare sau fie si numai fondatoare de identitate, ele dau inevitabil apa la moara unei tendinte ascunse de repetare si repunere in scena. ... masurile de stingere sau de domolire a flacarii mocnite cu care ard amintirile s.. | civilizations memorie memory | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 581535d | A aptidao de Hitler para o seu papel no psicodrama alemao nao se baseava em capacidades incomuns ou carismas brilhando ao longe, mas em sua vulgaridade inatingivelmente evidente e na disposicao resultante de berrar do fundo da alma para grandes multidoes. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| 7a916d4 | In ihrer alteren Version (Adorno) war die Frankfurter Schule ein gnostischer George-Kreis von links; sie lancierte die wunderbar hochmutige Initiative, eine ganze Generation in verfeinernder Absicht zu verfuhren. Sie loste eine tiefe Wirkung aus, die wir unter der Formel vom Eingedenken der Natur im Subjekt zusammenfassen konnen. In ihrer jungeren Version (Habermas) war sie ein in Latenz gehaltener Jakobinismus - eine sozialliberale Version.. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| bf788bd | Os colarinhos-brancos, os moderadores e criticos cresceram em quase toda parte a custa dos criativos e deixam-se festejar como os verdadeiros criadores. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| 44d5ee5 | Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look more closely at the work of deformation that starts deeper down, especially because it involves so much demoralization. Something gets destroyed there that should not be destroyed under any circumstances - THE AWARENESS THAT KNOWLEDGE IS BORN OUT OF EUPHORIA AND THAT INTELLIGENCE IS A RELATIONSHIP OF THE HAPPY CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ITSELF. And that.. | consciousness intelligence internal-astronautics | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 80c578a | Der wahre Begriff fur die heisst darum: Autodidaktik auf Leben und Tod. | conditio-humana | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| 7d2c708 | Man darf sich vom medienwirksamen Larm der Informationsindustrie nicht beirren lassen: Die Wirklichkeit der Wirklichkeit wird nicht im Cyber-Cafe gefunden oder in den Suchmaschinen definiert. Sie hat ihr Momentum weiterhin in den relativ langsamen Transportsysteme, die die raumlich Welt erschliessen, auf den Strassen, den Schienen und vor allem den maritimen Routen. Auf denen sich die glucksuche-getriebenen Aktivitaten der unternehmerischen.. | internet wirlichkeit | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| e3c90d8 | The impact of the sense of vision on philosophy is well summed up by Peter Sloterdijk: 'The eyes are the organic prototype of philosophy. Their enigma is that they not only can see but are also able to see themselves seeing. | Juhani Pallasmaa | ||
| 6e569fd | It illustrates the process of intelligence in relation to non-transparent factors on the basis of five typical configurations that I shall call: the grave; the body; the book; the bureaucracy; the complex machine. It would be an accidental but not undesirable effect if people recognize this series as a progressive approach to the living environment, or, rather, the box environment of modernity. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| 334ecd1 | For most of human history, when you were born you inherited an off-the-shelf package of religious and cultural constraints. This was a kind of library of limits that was embedded in your social and physical environment. These limits performed certain self-regulatory tasks for you so you didn't have to take them on yourself. The packages included habits, practices, rituals, social conventions, moral codes, and a myriad of other constraints t.. | James Williams | ||
| 027f05f | The lively thought-image of foam serves to recover the premetaphysical pluralism of world-inventions postmetaphysically. It helps us to enter the element of a manifold thought undeterred by the nihilistic pathos that involuntarily accompanied a reflection disappointed by the monological metaphysics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explains once again what this liveliness is about: "God is dead" is affirmed as the good news .. | Peter Sloterdijk | ||
| 03b0826 | In this distinctive world, elusive quantities flash at the edge of conventional logic. | Peter Sloterdijk |