Sloterdijk General

[Anonymous No.15532273]

i just realized "(you)" sounds like "jew". Is that where "((()))" comes from?

Also, some anon suggested that i read the Critic of Cynical Reason because it criticized pessimism or something along those lines but i got nothing from it. As usual i was more interested in the writers/thinkers he mentioned and his writing style is accessible so i pirated epub versions of the Spheres Trilogy and and the start he says that he tried to write a companion to Being and Time, Being and Space he calls it.
Have you read it? what did you think of it?

[Anonymous No.15532295]

>>15532273
No the three parentheses refer to the Trinity and how Christianity is a plot to weaken the West with the jews at the center of it

[Anonymous No.15532441]

>>15532273
I've read both and more.

Critique of Cynical Reason is the best intro to Sloterdijk's critique of Modernity and formulates his response to Adorno (the most important philosopher post-Heidegger).

Spheres is much more ambitious and comprehensive philosophical project which tries to outline the historical and ontological necessity to move past liberal individualism and towards co-immunism and intimate solidarity. Personally I think he's profoundly anti-fascist and anti-racist but obviously some people disagree.

Reading Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Hegel will help and be interesting (lol understatement) but is definitely not necessary.

[Anonymous No.15532464]

(((You)))

[Anonymous No.15532579]

>>15532441
Any thoughts on the (you)-((())) issue?

[Anonymous No.15532610]

>>15532579
What does this even mean? And how does it relate to Sloterdijk? These words have totally distinct etymologies and in German don't even sound remotely similar?

[Anonymous No.15532640]

Hehe dijk

[Anonymous No.15532648]

>>15532441
I've read his 'critique of extremist reason' without having real prior knowledge to the philosophy he refered to. Should I read Adorno before starting with the critique of cynical reason?

[Anonymous No.15532682]

>>15532648
It's really not necessary in order to understand Sloterdijk. But I would always suggest reading Adorno anyway - Minima Moralia is one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.15532807]

How's his book on the 20th century?

[Anonymous No.15532820]

>>15532682
Thanks, Sloterdijk is super accessible I assume the same cannot be said for Adorno but I will do my best.

[Anonymous No.15532870]

>>15532807
It's not really a book. More like a hotchpotch of different essays. It starts off very interesting with an interpretation of what is meant by Globalization and how the notion of Anthropocene ties into it. It loses its direction later on, where Sloterdijk goes into the analysis of knowledge and the intellectual being in western thought. Which according to him started with the 'polytropos' Odysseus.

[Anonymous No.15532871]

>>15532820
On the other hand Adorno has been around for a long time and, like Hegel, his ideas sound more familiar.
>>15532610
Not at all really just a joke for bumps

[Anonymous No.15532906]

>>15532870
Hmm might pick it up then.

Any thoughts on his "You Must Change Your Life"?

[Anonymous No.15532947]

>>15532906
Haven't read it sorry. Do you have any suggestions for contemporary philosophy which took up Slterdijks notion of spheres?