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- Peter Sloterdijk was born on June 26, 1947, the son of a German mother and a Dutch father. From 1968 to 1974 he studied Philosophy, History and German Studies in Munich and at the University of Hamburg. In 1971 Sloterdijk wrote his master's thesis titled Structuralism as poetic hermeneutics. In 1972/73, an essay on Michel Foucault's structural theory of history and a study entitled The Economics of Language Games followed. On the criticism of the linguistic constitution of objects. In 1976, Peter Sloterdijk of Professor Klaus Briegleb on the subject of literature and organization of life experience. Genre theory and genre history of the autobiography of the Weimar Republic 1918-1933 doctorate. Between 1978 and 1980 Sloterdijk stayed in the Ashram of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later Osho) in Pune, India. Since the 1980s Sloterdijk works as a freelance writer. The book Critic of Cynical Reason, published in 1983 by Suhrkamp Verlag, is one of the best-selling philosophical books of the 20th century. From 2001-2015 Sloterdijk was the successor of Heinrich Klotz Rector of the State College of Design in Karlsruhe.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bestiarium
- He grew up as the son of a Dutch father and a German mother. The marriage ended in divorce early, after which he grew up with his mother. From 1968 to 1974 he studied philosophy, history and German in Munich and Hamburg. In his master's thesis, completed in 1971, he dealt with the topic of "structuralism as poetic hermeneutics". In 1972/73 an essay on "Michel Foucault's structural theory of history" and a study entitled "The economy of language games. On the criticism of the linguistic constitution of objects" followed. In 1976 Sloterdijk received his doctorate in Hamburg. The topic of his dissertation: "Literature and organization of life experience. Genre theory and genre history of autobiography in the Weimar Republic 1918-1933". Between 1978 and 1980, Sloterdijk stayed in the ashram of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later Osho) in Pune, India.
Sloterdijk has been working as a freelance writer since 1980. He published numerous writings on cultural and religious philosophy, art theory and psychology. "Critique of Cynical Reason" was published in 1983. The title became a bestseller and the best-selling philosophical book in Europe. Subsequently, "The Magic Tree" (1985), "The Thinker on the Stage" (1986) and "Copernican Mobilization and Ptolemaic Disarmament" (1987) were published. In 1988 Sloterdijk became a guest lecturer at the Chair of Poetics at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 1989 he developed the term Eurotaoism and developed a critique of political kinetics. From 1992 to 1993 he held the chair for philosophy and aesthetics at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe. In 1993 Sloterdijk received the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for essay writing. In 1993 he also became head of the Institute for Cultural Philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, until Sloterdijk finally took on a contract professorship for cultural philosophy and media theory at the University of Vienna in 2001 within the newly created department for art and cultural studies.
He was also a guest lecturer at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, at the Collège International de Philosophy, Paris and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. In 1999, Sloterdijk also gained fame outside intellectual circles: in July, he gave a speech at an international conference on philosophy and theology at the turn of the century that sparked a debate about eugenics and human breeding. In the lecture entitled "Rules for the Human Park. A response to the humanism letter", Sloterdijk spoke about genetic engineering and prenatal diagnostics with partly "fascist rhetoric" - according to the accusation. Interpretations of the speech said that Sloterdijk advocated that leading philosophers control human breeding driven by genetic engineering. A heated exchange followed in the media. In 2001, succeeding Heinrich Klotz, he became rector of the State University of Design in Karlsruhe and professor of philosophy and aesthetics there. From 2002, Sloterdijk moderated the "Philosophical Quartet" on Second German Television together with Rüdiger Safranski.
In the same year, "Luftbeben. At the Roots of Terror" was published by Suhrkamp Verlag. In 2005 he was awarded the "Business Book Prize" from the Financial Times Germany and the "Sigmund Freud Prize" for academic prose. In 2008 he received the Lessing Prize for Criticism, the Cicero Speaker Prize and the Leipzig Mendelssohn Prize from the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation. In 2009 he was honored with the BDA Prize for Architectural Criticism. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe organized a symposium from June 23rd to 25th, 2017 under the title "Of dawns that have not yet shone". In the same year, Sloterdijk married his long-term partner, the Hamburg journalist Beatrice Kolster. In May 2019 it was made public that Sloterdijk hands over his private archive to the German Literature Archive in Marbach.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth
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