Peter Sloterdijk Quote

The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge.


p. xxix - Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983)


The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become...

The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become...

The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become...

The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become...