Peter Sloterdijk
This essay was published in German on my WordPress Blog Higher Education before. Here now follows the English version. Prompted by the Author and drafted by Claude AI. Reading Peter Sloterdijk — An Invitation | P.H. Blöcker Faust | God and the Devil | Credit phb Marlow and Goethe | 2 different versions Essay · Philosophy · P.H. Bloecker, retired Director of Studies Reading Peter Sloterdijk — An Invitation by P.H. Bloecker | phbloecker.wordpress.com There are books you open and immediately set aside — not because they bore you, but because you sense at once that something is being asked of you. A certain readiness. A kind of inward breath before the dive. Peter Sloterdijk is that kind of author. And that is precisely what makes him indispensable. I say this after more than four decades in the classroom and at the writing desk — in Berlin, in Windhoek, in Queensland. I have watched many philosophical fashions arrive and dissolve. Sloterdijk is not a fashion. He is a space of thought you enter and from which you do not emerge entirely the same. What a Temperament Is His book Philosophical Temperaments — From Plato to Foucault opens with a gesture that is quiet but revolutionary: Sloterdijk does not ask what the great philosophers of history thought. He asks how they experienced the world. What fundamental feeling drives a way of thinking?…