From this moment on, the child becomes a political object—to a certain extent, the living security deposit of enlightenment. The child is the noble savage in one's own house. Through appropriate education care must be taken in the future that innocent children are not made into the same artificial social cripples the previous system produced. Children are already what the new bourgeois humans believe they want to become.


pp. 55-56 - Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983)

Peter Sloterdijk Quotes

From this moment on, the child becomes a political object—to a certain extent, the living security deposit of enlightenment. The child is the noble ...

From this moment on, the child becomes a political object—to a certain extent, the living security deposit of enlightenment. The child is the noble ...

From this moment on, the child becomes a political object—to a certain extent, the living security deposit of enlightenment. The child is the noble ...

From this moment on, the child becomes a political object—to a certain extent, the living security deposit of enlightenment. The child is the noble ...