Tag: Elitism

• April 16, 2014

  The main theses of Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life

  This is the fourth set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). The first set of reflections can be read here. * Let us review what we know about Stoterdijk’s basic philosophical orientation. 1.) Human beings are first and foremost practicing animals. Most practice what they do implicitly: even an ignoramus, Stoterdijk contends,…
• April 8, 2014

  Conversion and elitism: A propaedeutic to reading Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life

  This is the third set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). In the post below, I am tacking back, by way of Charles Taylor’s work, in order to understand how Stoterdijk arrived at his version of neo-Nietzschean elitism. The first set of reflections can be read here. * Before one…