Nietzsche Apostle

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Peter Sloterdijk (Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Karlsruhe) Steve Corcoran

Nietzsche Apostle

Peter Sloterdijk (Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Karlsruhe), Steve Corcoran

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Semiotext (E)
15 November 2013

Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series

Peter Sloterdijk's essay on Friedrich Nietzsche and the benefits and dangers of narcissistic jubilation. For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a ""catastrophe in the history of language""-a new evangelist for a linguistics of narcissistic jubilation. Nietzsche offered a philosophical declaration of independence from humility, a meeting-point of sobriety and megalomania that for Sloterdijk has come to define the very project of philosophy.

Yet for all the significance of this language-event named Nietzsche, Nietzsche's contributions have too often been elided and the contradictions at the root of his philosophy too often edited out. As Sloterdijk observes, ""Never has an author so insisted on distinction and yet attracted such vulgarity."" Nietzsche Apostle, drawn from a speech Sloterdijk gave in 2000 on the hundredth anniversary of Nietzsche's death, looks at the ways in which Nietzsche has been branded over the years through selective compilation, and at the ways in which Nietzsche turned himself into a brand-a brand announced by his proclaimed ""fifth Gospel,"" Thus Spoke Zarathustra. For Sloterdijk, the focus should not be on the figure of Zarathustra or on the ""will to power"" often used as a kind of philosophical shorthand to sum up Nietzsche's work, but on Zarathustra's act of ""speaking"" itself. Nietzsche Apostle offers a brief history of self-praise and self-affirmation, an examination of the evolution of boasting (both by God and by man), and a very original approach to Nietzsche, philosophy's first designer brand of individualism.

By: Peter Sloterdijk (Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Karlsruhe)
Translated by: Steve Corcoran
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Volume: 16
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 86g
ISBN: 9781584350996
ISBN 10: 1584350997
Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
Pages: 88
Publication Date: 15 November 2013
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely read German intellectuals writing today. His 1983 publication of Critique of Cynical Reason (published in English in 1988) became the best-selling German book of philosophy since World War II. He became president of the State Academy of Design at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe in 2001. He has been cohost of a discussion program, Das Philosophische Quartett (Philosophical Quartet) on German television since 2002.

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Peter Sloterdijk (Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Karlsruhe), Steve Corcoran

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