He lost self-control when he was 44 years old. Philosoph Peter Sloterdijk "Regieren per Erlass ist auf den äußersten Notfall zu beschränken". Why? Nietzsche was a kind of action teacher writing a book for all and nobody, and discovering in so doing the very structure of higher morality. One is that the high noon is not just the moment of maximum revelation, it’s also the hour at which there is a great deal of concealment in appearances, precisely because of this excessive brightness and this stillness. Modernity is all about disillusionment. He was tormented by the fact that, before you get to any good news, there’s terrible news — dreadful, awful news that he has to bring to humankind. Support our print journal and we’ll acknowledge you in the upcoming issue. Read more: 'The time has come for humanity to go through its next evolution'. But the order was turned around: the editors of the New Testament put Matthew in the beginning, then Mark, then Luke, and the last one is John, the Greek apostle. But who knows how long this patient behavior will last. "Nach Gott" lautet der Titel der neuen Aufsatzsammlung von Peter Sloterdijk, in der der Philosoph Schriften zur Religion bündelt. The vertical tension has a rocket-like dynamic, a will to growth, and that can be easily expressed in biological terms. In a certain way, yes. For Germans, the tunnels that led to the south posed a more essential question: how to regain free access to the truth that lay beyond the Alps, to the Italian truth, the Mediterranean truth, and then to the really big dream-essence? Yes, Nietzsche has himself sometimes tried to get out of this full circle. They would have liked to put an end to their miserable lives, but they did not dare, due to their allegiance to the message.” That is Kafka, and I think that this, in five lines, is the metaphysics of modern communications: everywhere messengers share their voices with each other; very rarely do they have at least a minimal message. Unlock the print membership and receive a limited edition LARB-branded tote and the print Quarterly Journal. Support a student from a marginalized group to attend the upcoming LARB Publishing Workshop and receive updates on their progress and the scholarship in your name. Peter Sloterdijk: „das Gleiten auf der Ebene der Humankollektive ist eben doch noch beunruhigender.“ Die Aussage für sich ist treffend. Für Peter Sloterdijk ist unsere Epoche von immer tieferen Generationsbrüchen geprägt. You also authored a book about Nietzsche called Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche’s Materialism. One feels a little … ashamed for him. Cities like Norilsk and Yakutsk are already seeing serious subsidence, and scientists expect their infrastructure to become at least 25% less stable by mid-century. Peter Sloterdijk is one of Germany's most influential thinkers. Can you say how important you believe that one book is in Nietzsche’s corpus? We cannot have very wide-ranging views because we live in the middle of the dust left by the deconstruction of the metaphysical tradition. It’s extremely self-critical, but in one aspect he still has a kind of admiration for the young man who wrote this book. Some 28% of the population of Bangladesh lives on the coast, and high tides are rising 10 times faster than the global average. Deswegen reagieren wir so schockiert, empört und moralisch betroffen, wenn sich unzensierte Macht zeigt. Peter Sloterdijk [ˈsloːtɐˌdaɪk] (* 26. Derrida, by the way, said that, man is an autobiographical animal, and the very possibility of historiography depends on the human faculty to bring the elements of your life story together and to arrange them in such a way that you get an autobiographical self. I think we should continue our reflections in one year or so. He asks them first of all not to mistake him for something he had not been. Now deconstruction has happened, though not necessarily under that name. Philosoph und Schriftsteller DW's half-hour radio show and podcast brings you environment stories from around the globe. Nun hat Peter Sloterdijk zu diesem Begriff, der seither mit ihm verbunden bleiben sollte, erneut Stellung genommen. Er hält das für eine misslungene Beschreibung. Are we not Greeks, adorers of form, surfaces, colors, tones, everything that has to do with the divine superficiality of appearance?”. But the most similar event and the most comparable to now, even if it sounds quite unlikely, were those sublime days when the Berlin Wall fell down. From 2001 to 2015, he was the rector of the State Academy of Design at … This transcript is taken from Harrison’s radio talk show, Entitled Opinions. From Wagner, he imported the message of a new seriousness for music and culture generally, because the German opera was light opera at the time. That world, and Sloterdijk’s Germany especially, was split down the middle, with a belligerent Soviet Union to the east and an exceptionally deadly alliance of nations to the west. That is very important, because with John the Hellenization of the Jewish message started. By Thomas Meane y. February 19, 2018. Do you believe that the figure of Jesus is secondary, in Nietzsche’s mind, to Paul? Yes, that is the case. Peter Sloterdijk: "There is no more room for exaggeration" 2020-09-29T12:24:20.294Z Peter Sloterdijk: Ja, im Rahmen einer familiären Tradition. — to the actual presence of the god, or whatever divinity one is referring to, either Dionysus, or the epiphany of Christ, which is also present and also to come. It’s very much the contemporary citizen as a global citizen, a kind of capitalist of consumerism who does not think beyond the creaturely comforts of this day and the next day. This was also part of his brand. This kind of morality creates a field of behavior that is not applicable to living populations but traces the horizon for new generations to inhabit. But Zarathustra? We really are globally connected and are living more and more in the same time dimension. This urge that Dionysus has — in his moment of presence, his epiphany — very quickly turns into the dismemberment of that god, perhaps precisely because there is liberation from the narcissistic trap in which the divine often finds itself. — operetta. German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk explains how this is connected to the climate crisis. This is taking its toll on cities in Russia's far north, as the permafrost beneath building foundations begins to melt. We all live in mist and dust. […] This is my experience of inspiration. That brings us back to the apostle problem: How can the contemporary author be a messenger without really knowing himself what his message could be? Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The state of the debt, the work of mourning, and the new international, translated by Peggy Kamuf (Routledge, 1994). For that, we are too experienced, too serious, too gay, too burned, too deep. He has almost nothing to say about the dominance of modern technology in the era to come. That we in a matter of weeks were able to give up very basic freedoms…. Because, for our tastes, he entered too deeply into that realm of necessary self-love, the realm of the God who reflects on his own godliness. Peter Sloterdijk Interview_'the World is Returning to Pluralism After American Hegemony'_WorldPost & Washington Post_Jan 2017 - Free download as Word Doc (.doc / .docx), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. So Saint Paul was the most fateful person in history, according to Nietzsche. As Nietzsche famously said, “I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite.” In Nietzsche’s time, the sound of an explosion was very Helvetic, because Switzerland was the country where the first heroic efforts were made to penetrate mountains and create tunnels — to create new ways to get to the south. by Peter Sloterdijk, translated from the German by Karen Margolis, edited and with an afterword by Peter Weibel Polity, 335 pp., $69.95; $28.95 (paper) Selected Exaggerations: Conversations and … Even though it's rebuilt, New Orleans has been battered again and again by powerful storms. Unlock the LA Classics Bundle, four books including a signed copy of James Ellroy’s Everyman’s Library edition of The L.A. Quartet. These tunnels in Switzerland fulfilled an important role in the history of modern culture because they offered the connection. Was there something about Greek tragedy that was not exportable to the northern mists and northern gods of Wagner? Maybe. Im Großen und Ganzen geht es erträglich, aber ich bin seit Jahren ein fleißiger Apothekenbesucher. God remains always in himself but he explodes permanently. (Peter Sloterdijk – Interview am 26. He is a professor of philosophy and media theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. The whole truth about philosophical theology is the absolute narcissism of God, and that makes us so critical of Nietzsche. Ausgewählte Übertreibungen: Gespräche und Interviews 1993-2012: Amazon.es: Peter Sloterdijk, Bernhard Klein: Libros en idiomas extranjeros Unlock the digital membership and receive the digital Quarterly Journal and the Reckless Reader card that offers discounts or perks at participating bookstores. I find that when it comes to Nietzsche being a prophet, in some ways he was … blind about what would be the most dominant feature of the coming century, though many people consider him the inaugurator of the 20th century. But I think he wanted to be Celano and Francis of Assisi in one person, and to become the writer of a vita, not a modern autobiography —. Save $20 when you subscribe for a whole year! © 2021 Deutsche Welle | And so Nietzsche designs a horizon for those who in the morality markets of the future will distinguish themselves as individuals who show how the path of humanity can be continued. In English, that could be rendered approximately as “sacramental festival.” He intended people to go to these events in the same clothes they would wear to the sacrificial setting of an ancient ritual. In 2016, he taught a four-week seminar at Stanford University on the philosophical implications of cynicism, with particular focus on Critique of Cynical Reason, a thousand-page study that has sold more copies than any other postwar book on German philosophy. PETER SLOTERDIJK: The answer is quite simple. Today you would say “musical” or the classical opera buffa. In the very last canto of Dante’s Paradiso, he looks right into the Godhead and sees the Trinity smiling to itself, on itself, through itself. He says, “How much would you have to become a friend of yourself, and how much would you have to fall in love with life in general, if you were ready to carry this heaviest idea of all thinkable ideas, which is that everything will happen again and you will come eternally back again as the same person?” And if you could say yes to that obscene proposition, that everything should happen again, without the intervention of a “no,” then both these circularities could meet. As a person, he’s not able to say what it means to be really willing this or that. Peter Sloterdijk (73) ist Autor und einer der führenden Philosophen der Welt. Save $40 when you subscribe for a whole year! If not, I will describe it. And finally it condenses into an established corpus of convictions, and convictions are things you can repeat without being bored by what you say. In den Gesprächen sieht er zentrale Denk-Motive des Philosophen deutlich werden: die Abneigung gegen Sorgenagitation, den Willen zur Aufhellung und Aufheiterung, das Selbstverständis als Übender, die Leidenschaft des Denkens. Everything happens more or less at the same time. The Birth of Tragedy is really his only bona fide book in the sense that it presents an argument. Peter Sloterdijk is one of Germany's most influential thinkers. Do you think we'll be able to speak before the destruction written on the wall comes true? Yes, it is closer to the vita — so a saint’s life, the record of a saint’s life. Yes, between Germany and Greece especially. In Chennai, things have become desperate: its main reservoir has dried up, residents are queuing for hours at pumps, water is being trucked in and hospitals are under pressure. While vegetation releases water into the atmosphere, cooling things down, concrete and asphalt trap heat. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, translated by Maria Jolas (Beacon Press, 1994). 85 personas están hablando de esto. Neoplatonism, for instance, is nothing but a huge description of the turmoil that is going on inside the space of divinity. This cathartic moment of the Greek drama became very important and remained important for each. Teaching is also a form of pity. That shows that he’s looking for the moments when he was able to bear the burden of his divine predicament. Peter Sloterdijk no Fronteiras do Pensamento Porto Alegre 2016. Peter Sloterdijk is een naoorlogse denker: hij kwam in aanraking met de filosofie in de tijd dat ‘de grote verhalen’ dood werden verklaard. The most beautiful part of Zarathustra, the high noon scene in the fourth part of Zarathustra, is a kind of European answer to the moment of enlightenment of the Buddha under the Bodhi Tree. It’s an in-depth analysis and reflection on Nietzsche’s first book, The Birth of Tragedy, which is dedicated to Richard Wagner. But I wonder if some scholars are right to take the theory of the eternal recurrence of the same literally. He sees the rope-walker who has fallen down, and he says, “You made the danger. These are messages that one can actually deliver to one’s fellow men, without needing a king behind them. The acceptance of that which does not reveal itself — or that which perhaps you cannot penetrate to the truth of — might be part of the experience of the high noon, or at least an acceptance of the limitation that our phenomenological ways of being in the world bring with them. And in that context, you read this most provocative sentence from the introduction, the so-called prologue to Zarathustra: “Man is a rope between the animal and the Superman,” and you decide if you want to be a successful rope-walker or not. Yeah, I experienced a deep change in my existential mood at the age of about 33. The encounter with Wagner was lucky because it allowed him to jump directly from Germany and Turin to Athens. And I think that we are still uneasy on the level of lexical change. We’re no longer dealing with the petite bourgeoisie or those 19th-century categories. This will to truth will end up demoralizing us beyond any hope. Limited access to water means residents pump it from underground aquifers, causing subsidence. As the planet heats up, more and more cities could run out of water. The system of Proclus found an amazing afterlife in Hegel’s system. That’s true, but we have the — how should I say this? Our response to the pandemic was immediate, almost unbelievably fast and unified. It’s a test, as it were. There is a deep hilarity in wisdom, even if it has to be gained through the long tunnel of sad and horrifying knowledge that belongs to the modern condition. He bypassed the laborious process that some of his predecessors, such as Hegel, had to go through. Without knowing what we’re doing, we are uncovering one truth after another that shows us that there is really nothing behind the things that we are investigating. For purposes of entertainment, repetition is deadly. In an interview with Noema Magazine, Sloterdijk expanded upon the idea of “planetary co-immunism”, referring to the need to "share the means of protection even with the most distant members of the family of man/woman" when faced with shared threats such as pandemics. By the way, Nietzsche had not yet studied the so-called “gnostic gospels.” They were discovered later on. From 2001 to 2015, he was the rector of the State Academy of Design at Karlsruhe, Germany, where he has been a professor of philosophy and media theory since 1992. Support our online flagship magazine and the free trade of ideas. We feel embarrassed when we read Nietzsche’s self-eulogies. Support our virtual events series and we’ll name you a major donor on our events page and marketing materials. He thinks of the last men. One of the questions we've been thinking about in this interview series is the idea of comparing the two crises. Do you think that Nietzsche had to do some special pleading to make the substantial connection between Wagner and the Greeks? He wanted to see northern gods come back on the tragic scene of German theater. He sometimes made very funny remarks about that. Not of our being, but behavior. Certainly, I'm as surprised as many contemporaries are. Philosoph Peter Sloterdijk wird schon seit Jahren als Querdenker bezeichnet. That was a disruptive event in my own life. Well, I know that I find some distinct messages in your work, nevertheless. He co-hosted the German television show Im Glashaus: Das Philosophische Quartett from 2002 to 2012. That’s true. Zeit für eine Ethik neuer Nachhaltigkeit. In this, also, a different knowledge of the tools of suffering was to be distributed to an elite audience, a new Germany. Sloterdijk spricht über sein Leben, berühmte Bastarde und die Unzufriedenheit in den westlichen Gesellschaften generell. ROBERT HARRISON: I have just finished reading your splendid little book Nietzsche Apostle, which was published in English in 2013 but first came out in Germany in the year 2000, on the 100th anniversary of Nietzsche’s death. And Nietzsche created a market for a brand of … I think it’s related to what you’re talking about, the ladder of having realized that — in the regime of the last man, a regime of egalitarianism — there will always be a drive for distinction. Nous has that quality, where it thinks upon itself. This introduction was eventually seen as the best piece of philosophic prose he had ever written. Nietzsche can be read as someone who tried to make unbearable truths bearable by instilling a new element of love into the message. Absolutely. The problem is how to transform this message into good use. You quote a number of passages in Nietzsche Apostle that are extremely embarrassing, but you almost get immune to them because, as you say, we deal with our embarrassment by either putting aside these passages or finding explanations for them, whereby they don’t really mean what they say. Now retired from university instruction, he regularly contributes to public debate through interviews published in leading periodicals around Europe, among them Germany's Die Zeit, Spain's El Pais, and France's Le Point. Unlock the Provocations Bundle, a selection of books from LARB Books, including N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law by Jody Armour. All experience the same drama. So the apostle discovered the kind of speech that is not afraid of repetition. Contact There is a strange temporality to this. Peter Sloterdijk has spent decades railing against the pieties of liberal democracy. In the later preface, Nietzsche is extremely self-critical, as you say, and he writes of himself that “this author should have sung rather than spoken.” And yet, I have a very different impression of The Birth of Tragedy. He talks to those who can understand. Dionysus is there, don’t even breathe. Is it not the case? And if you are not successful as a rope-walker — you have nevertheless tried it. I think he was trying to say this: “There is a single entity whose nature determines the structure and existence of the universe, and that entity is the thing that people have been calling “God” for many centuries. This is a huge challenge because there is no longer the classical excuse that we are too little or too small in order to deal with such immensities. After writing his master's thesis on "Structuralism as the Poetics of Hermeneutics" in 1971, he published two articles in … When he turns his back on the field of propositional prose, of putting one reasonable sentence after the other, he starts something that can be understood as a maneuver to confront this world history of resentment that is linked to the victory of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire. It is the book in which he marks his coming out as a writer of a new type of autobiography. Peter Sloterdijk is een naoorlogse denker: hij kwam in aanraking met de filosofie in de tijd dat ‘de grote verhalen’ dood werden verklaard. Of course, the word gospel means “good news” or “glad tidings.” You make a point of Nietzsche’s claim that he wrote the fifth gospel in his book Zarathustra. There are many other ways in which, by praising God, the praiser is also involved in an act of self-praise. It sounds a little bit weird, yes? They were the co-inventors of “Alpinism,” and that might have sufficed for their ambitions. That is absolutely the case with Nietzsche. From an architectonic point of view, the divine narcissism is the pre-condition of what Nietzsche called his deep idea — that is, the teaching of the eternal recurrence of the same. In Zarathustra, especially in part four, however, he has a prophetic vision that has to do with our own time. So there’s a lot of classicism in that Ecce Homo. Suivez toute l'actualité sur Peter Sloterdijk, et retrouvez les dernières informations dans les articles du Point. The world as a whole is more or less synchronized and pulls together into one hothouse for contagious news. Teaching is always something that is not propelled by a manic mission, but —. And that is what the 21st century will teach to the global community…. Everything we do adheres to a structure — similar to a language. What does that mean to change the grammar of our being? PETER SLOTERDIJK IS one of the most controversial thinkers in the world. For everything that has to do with verticality, Nietzsche is the specialist coming from the tradition. The Greek ἄγγελος is just a messenger. We are deeply convinced that all we do could and should be forgiven. Robert Pogue Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature at Stanford University. Or will it? That is his first and last hope: not to be misunderstood as the founder of a new religion. He still pretends that this young author was the first one to ask the question, “What could Dionysus really mean to us?”, His whole life’s work was a huge effort to unfold the meaning of a new encounter with a coming god. On the surface, you would say he tries to do something that could only be done by a third person, just as it needed a Thomas of Celano to write The Life of Saint Francis. Peter Sloterdijk ist Gegenwartsbeobachter und Geschichtsüberflieger in einem. We no longer believe that truth remains truth when the veils are withdrawn.” And then he goes on to say: “Aren’t we now, after we’ve been through these depths, coming back to the Greek wisdom? We have been leaving the era when we lived under the metaphysics of a strong sender. Arctic temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth. As you described in the case of the turbulence of God and even in more traditional notions? I think Nietzsche was among the very rare thinkers who had a feeling for the deep connection between moral philosophy and public relations. And we are not really prepared for this inversion. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, translated by Maria Jolas (Beacon Press, 1994). The grammar of our behavior. A messenger of the rope. Interview mit Peter Sloterdijk: „Im Ausnahmezustand streift der Staat seine Samthandschuhe ab“ We use cookies to improve our service for you. These are already new elements of a different social grammar. This is a classic genre. I find it an extremely sober, well-reasoned book that lays out evidence toward arguments and attempts to present a rather coherent thesis that can be tested empirically, historically, or philologically. This idea of living dangerously is a parable for the kind of thinking that your work certainly embodies, in all sorts of ways. The theater was made to allow a large audience — in an ideal case, the complete male population of a big city — to be present when the suffering of God himself was represented, and to look at the dismembering of Dionysus and see how his suffering recreates the world and makes a new form of social synthesis possible. There’s something in his thinking that promises to show us a way to transcend this fatality. When things become specific, it’s more difficult. Can one be the messenger of something like the predominance of ressentiment — resentment in human modern behavior, mentality, and so forth? Peter Sloterdijk was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1947. The connection between Germany and Greece? His books include Critique of Cynical Reason (1983), Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche’s Materialism (1986), The Spheres Trilogy (1998, 1999, 2004), Rage and Time (2006), Nietzsche Apostle (2013), You Must Change Your Life (2009), and Not Saved: Essays After Heidegger (2001). But, on the whole, there is one big chain of events and connectedness. Beiträge und Interviews die im deutschsprachigem Internet publiziert wurden. Privacy Policy | And right now I am still waiting for the moment when I will be able to listen to the music and to watch movies as I could before. By 2050, 95% of North Jakarta could be submerged. It goes approximately like this: “They were faced with the alternative of becoming kings or messengers. As we look to the future and that wave gets bigger and bigger with regard to the danger of climate change, there are some big changes that we have to make as a species. With it I have given humanity the greatest gift it has ever received.” I could quote many such passages. This week on Eco Africa: Popcorn as a substitute to polystyrene and keeping cheetahs away from livestock in Namibia. In his first paragraphs he writes, on January 6, 1889: “Dear Professor, in the end I would much rather be a Basel professor than God, but I have not dared push my private egoism so far as to desist, for its sake, from the creation of the world. Heidegger’s remark hits a very sensitive spot, but not to the disadvantage of Nietzsche. — the labor of experimenting with truth. But you also say, somewhat prophetically, that he was promising losers a formula by which they could be on the side of winners. Peter Sloterdijk Biographical Information. No, this bad taste, this will to truth, to truth at any price, this youthful madness in love of truth have lost their charm for us. What our response to the coronavirus is proving is that the globalization through media is an almost accomplished project. So you think it’s more of a vita than a gospel? So we're in the process of putting the building blocks of language together. Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The state of the debt, the work of mourning, and the new international, translated by Peggy Kamuf (Routledge, 1994). Max Brod found a very nice parable that Franz Kafka wrote in his diaries. Read more: Disinformation and propaganda during the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.lessymboles.com/avis-du-philosophe-peter-sloterdijk We look at them and feel ashamed. Well, here’s a question about whether a message has to have a king who is dispatching it, whether there has to be a god for whom one is acting as a messenger. Die rigorose Kriegsrhetorik mancher Politiker führe in die Irre, sagt der Philosoph Peter Sloterdijk. What you do is create the market for the very brand that you’re promoting. Zarathustra is a bewildering testament, and Nietzsche had, in Ecce Homo and elsewhere, what some people consider an insane overvaluation of the importance of that work among all his other works. De bronnen van betekenis die mensenlevens eeuwenlang zin en directie hebben gegeven, voldeden niet langer. Peter Sloterdijk "Die Europäer definieren sich selber als gutartig". During a heat wave, Paris can be 10 degrees hotter than the surrounding countryside. The full recording is available on the Los Angeles Review of Books‘s Entitled Opinions channel, here. Heidegger tried to reintegrate Nietzsche into the history of ontotheology and to see in him a thinker who explained the two strongest ways the divine will manifests itself: the will to power as science or as technology, and the will to power as art. He discovered this new type of problem — how to maintain the vertical tension if the higher region has been removed. But if that is so, the individual who is in the middle of the process, or caught in the process, will be just a grain of dust in an infernal mill that turns eternally. Digital Quarterly Journal + archive + member card for participating bookstores + our weekly newsletter and events invitations. Later in Nietzsche’s life, he addresses his future readers. So would you say that the message of Nietzsche Apostle already begins with The Birth of Tragedy, and his thinking about Greek tragic wisdom and Dionysus, and the death of the God onstage, and the meaning of suffering? Interview by Richard Marshall 'I think of Spinoza as a radical religious reformer. Film von 2019. Peter Sloterdijk (* 1947) gilt als einer der wichtigsten deutschen Philosophen der Gegenwart. He studied German language and literature, philosophy, and history in Munich and Hamburg. D'Caroline Mart am Interview mam Philosoph Peter Sloterdijk Den 71 Joer ale Peter Sloterdijk ass en iwwerzeegten Europäer, deen awer déi aktuell Krisen mat engem gewësse Recul kuckt. But at the same time, it also confirms something I have been developing for decades on a theoretical level. PETER SLOTERDIJK IS one of the most controversial thinkers in the world. And all the new theology is about the question: “How should we understand the temporal structure of this arrival that pretends, at the same time, to be already a presence?” Something is to come and something is already present. … I went to India and spent approximately four months there. Eric Alliez, ‘Living Hot, Thinking Coldly: An Interview with Peter Sloterdijk,’ Cultural Politics, 3 (2007) 307–326.

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