Peter Sloterdijk

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5 total works indexed

1. Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives

   · 1999 · cited 84,909x

2. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

   · 1987 · cited 42,192x

3. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,722x

4. RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

   · 2019 · cited 23,723x

5. <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

   · 2010 · cited 23,303x

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Quotes

• “In our thinking there is no longer any spark of the uplifting flight of concepts or of the ecstasies of understanding. We are enlightened, we are apathetic. No one talks anymore of a love of wisdom. There is no longer any knowledge whose friend (philos) one could be. It does not occur to us to love the kind of knowledge we have; rather we ask ourselves how we might contrive to live with it without becoming ossified.”
• ““Knowledge is power.” This is the sentence that dug the grave of philosophy in the nineteenth century. … This sentence brings to an end the tradition of a knowledge that, as its name indicates, was an erotic theory—the love of truth and the truth through love (Liebeswahrheit). … Those who utter the sentence reveal the truth. However, with the utterance they want to achieve more than truth: They want to intervene in the game of power.”
• “Our lethargic modernity certainly knows how to “think historically,” but it has long doubted that it lives in a meaningful history.”
• “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.”
• “Socialization through schooling, as it takes place here, and in Western societies, in general, is a priori stupefaction”
• “Does not an ingenuous contact with Kantian thinking, with philosophical thinking in general, contain the risk of exposing a young consciousness to a violent and sudden aging? What of a youthful will to know is preserved in a philosophy that makes one dizzy with its bony spiraling turns of the screw?”

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Key facts

Born

( 1947-06-26 ) 26 June 1947 (age 78) , Karlsruhe , Württemberg-Baden , Germany

Alma mater

LMU Munich , University of Hamburg

Era

21st-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Phenomenology , philosophical anthropology , posthumanism

Notable ideas

Spherology ( Sphärologie ), Human Park ( Menschenpark ), Gifts instead of Taxes

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Official website

petersloterdijk.net

Image

Peter Sloterdijk, Karlsruhe 07-2009, IMGP3019.jpg

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