18 Facts About Peter Sloterdijk

Peter Sloterdijk was a professor of philosophy and media theory at and Rector from 2001 to 2015 of the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe.

Peter Sloterdijk co-hosted the German television show Das Philosophische Quartett from 2002 until 2012.

Peter Sloterdijk studied philosophy, German studies and history at the University of Munich and the University of Hamburg from 1968 to 1974.

In 2002, Peter Sloterdijk began to co-host Das Philosophische Quartett, a show on the German ZDF television channel devoted to discussing key contemporary issues in-depth.

Peter Sloterdijk's ideas are sometimes referred to as posthumanism, and seek to integrate different components that have been, in his opinion, erroneously considered detached from each other.

Peter Sloterdijk himself, viewing exaggeration as necessary to catch attention, describes the way he presents his ideas as "hyperbolic".

Peter Sloterdijk has said that the first paragraphs of Spheres are "the book that Heidegger should have written", a companion volume to Being and Time, namely, "Being and Space".

Peter Sloterdijk was referring to his initial exploration of the idea of Dasein, which is then taken further as Sloterdijk distances himself from Heidegger's positions.

On 25 August 2000, in Weimar, Peter Sloterdijk gave a speech on Nietzsche; the occasion was the centennial of the latter philosopher's death.

Peter Sloterdijk presented the idea that language is fundamentally narcissistic: individuals, states and religions use language to promote and validate themselves.

For examples of classical Western "proxy-narcissism", Peter Sloterdijk cites Otfrid of Weissenburg, Thomas Jefferson and Leo Tolstoy, each of whom prepared edited versions of the four Gospels: the Evangelienbuch, the Jefferson Bible and the Gospel in Brief, respectively.

Peter Sloterdijk concludes the work by comparing Nietzsche's individualism with that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, as in Self-Reliance.

Peter Sloterdijk argues that the current concept of globalization lacks historical perspective.

The difference for Peter Sloterdijk is that, while the second wave created cosmopolitanism, the third is creating a global provincialism.

Shortly after Peter Sloterdijk conducted a symposium on philosophy and Heidegger, he stirred up controversy with his essay "Regeln fur den Menschenpark".

Peter Sloterdijk replied that this was, itself, resorting to "fascist" tactics to discredit him.

Peter Sloterdijk rejected the accusation of Nazism, which he considered alien to his historical context.

Peter Sloterdijk opened the text with the famous quote of leftist critics of capitalism "Property is theft", stating that it isadays the modern state that is the biggest taker.