Peter Sloterdijk is professor of aesthetics and philosophy at the Institute of Design in Karlsruhe and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His numerous works include The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice; Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation; and the best-selling Critique of Cynical Reason. Thomas Dunlap is also the translator of Wolfgang Benz's A Concise History of the Third Reich and Michael Stolleis's A History of Public Law in Germany, 1914-1945. Creston Davis is professor of philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities in Skopje, Macedonia.

Overall, this is a scintillating introduction for Anglophone readers to a stimulating provocateur of contemporary European intellectual culture. Choice A highly engaging read. -- Dylan S Bailey Marx & Philosophy Review of Books An excellent entry point into Sloterdijk's enormous body of work by way of an innovative retelling of philosophy's history. -- Jonathan G. Wald Foucault Studies

• Foreword to the English Translation, by Creston Davis Preface Plato Aristotle Augustine Bruno Descartes Pascal Leibniz Kant Fichte Hegel Schelling Schopenhauer Kierkegaard Marx Nietzsche Husserl Wittgenstein Sartre Foucault Notes Index

Peter Sloterdijk is professor of aesthetics and philosophy at the Institute of Design in Karlsruhe and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His numerous works include The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice; Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation; and the best-selling Critique of Cynical Reason. Thomas Dunlap is also the translator of Wolfgang Benz's A Concise History of the Third Reich and Michael Stolleis's A History of Public Law in Germany, 1914-1945. Creston Davis is professor of philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities in Skopje, Macedonia.

Overall, this is a scintillating introduction for Anglophone readers to a stimulating provocateur of contemporary European intellectual culture. Choice A highly engaging read. -- Dylan S Bailey Marx & Philosophy Review of Books An excellent entry point into Sloterdijk's enormous body of work by way of an innovative retelling of philosophy's history. -- Jonathan G. Wald Foucault Studies

• Foreword to the English Translation, by Creston Davis Preface Plato Aristotle Augustine Bruno Descartes Pascal Leibniz Kant Fichte Hegel Schelling Schopenhauer Kierkegaard Marx Nietzsche Husserl Wittgenstein Sartre Foucault Notes Index

Peter Sloterdijk is professor of aesthetics and philosophy at the Institute of Design in Karlsruhe and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His numerous works include The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice; Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation; and the best-selling Critique of Cynical Reason. Thomas Dunlap is also the translator of Wolfgang Benz's A Concise History of the Third Reich and Michael Stolleis's A History of Public Law in Germany, 1914-1945. Creston Davis is professor of philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities in Skopje, Macedonia.

Overall, this is a scintillating introduction for Anglophone readers to a stimulating provocateur of contemporary European intellectual culture. Choice A highly engaging read. -- Dylan S Bailey Marx & Philosophy Review of Books An excellent entry point into Sloterdijk's enormous body of work by way of an innovative retelling of philosophy's history. -- Jonathan G. Wald Foucault Studies

• Foreword to the English Translation, by Creston Davis Preface Plato Aristotle Augustine Bruno Descartes Pascal Leibniz Kant Fichte Hegel Schelling Schopenhauer Kierkegaard Marx Nietzsche Husserl Wittgenstein Sartre Foucault Notes Index