Confrontational thinkers – The philosopher Peter Sloterdijk is 70

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He is considered to be one of the most important thinkers of our time. In words of Peter Sloterdijk engages in socio-political debates and provoked love to have new thinking. Now, the well-known philosopher of 70.

An exceptional event: A highly complicated write philosopher in 2002, is in the country of Poets and thinkers television presenter. For ten years, Peter Sloterdijk, sat, and today its 70. Celebrates birthday, is the maintenance talk round in front of seed, “The Philosophical Quartet” on ZDF. Philosophical disputes, with a sense of humour fought to the basic question of the time. Like fired Sloterdijk, this way of thinking round, with trenchant observations, and filed questions. A self-thinker, an Against-the-dash-Argumentierer, a powerful leader in the best sense – in the television landscape of the German TV channels unusual constellation.

A creative thinker of the policy

The man is a giant of a man. You don’t see that in the roundtable discussions on television, but you can feel it: Peter Sloterdijk, born on 26. June 1947, in Baden, Karlsruhe, rests, even though he is in the mind extremely restless. Almost every year he brings out a new book. His works he thought in his head before he writes it down, he says. In the meantime, the passionate cyclist written and even an Opera libretto. “Babylon” by Jörg Widmann, and Sloterdijk was premiered in 2012 by star conductor Kent Nagano at the Bavarian state Opera in Munich.

Insightful Diaries

Casual, eloquent and masterfully Peter Sloterdijk walking around in public in his highly complex thoughts buildings, whether in the case of Small-Talk on the television or in a scientific Congress of philosophy. With his provocative theses, he has made as a political thinker long been an international name. His harsh criticism of the refugee policy of the German Chancellor sparked fierce debates in the media. He prophesied that Merkel rowing back to or Europe will develop a common border policy – and was right.

In the world interior of the thinking universe

The excessive preoccupation with philosophy has its origins in the days of his youth. He grew up with his sister when his single mother. His father, a Dutch marine, left the family early. “The silent philosophical self-interview” to be his “youth usual turmoil”, has made him to Think strong and taught him to keep in this in mind, building orientation, says Sloterdijk, in retrospect.

In 1968, the year of his intellectual awakening was, a year that has influenced him in his political breaks also. For the study, he went first to Munich, then to Hamburg. Rapidly he wrote his master’s thesis and a PhD in 1976 on “literature and the organization of life experience”. He then lived two years in solitude in the Indian Ashram of the cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and was trying to find himself and his Inner.

If Sloterdijk reads, are all still

Supporters of the cheerful ways of thinking athletics

1980 Sloterdijk in Germany, appears as a writer – and writes a Bestseller: His book “critique of cynical reason” with 150,000 copies sold, the most successful philosophical work after 1945. After that, the fast writer will have to dig in his numerous works and Essays across the German Ghost story. He is intense and brilliant formulated analyses with Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger and Habermas apart. In 1992, he is Professor for philosophy and Aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in his home town of Karlsruhe and teaches students critical Thinking. For 14 years he led there as a rector of the Regiment of the Creative.

For 30 years, Peter Sloterdijk polarized with his socio-political writings. That seems to give him joy. As a native of Baden, he not only puts the emphasis on good food, but also in a good mood when you Philosophize. He described himself as a “supporter of the gay science”. Hostility and its Critics, which will be called each time a new book in the German Feuilletons on the Plan, not take care of him. Headaches make him only symposia in his honor. His advanced age would make him realize, he jokes. He has a lot of. His private athletic philosophy: voltage hold on, never give up, always be better.