Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design. He is one of the most influential philosophers writing today and is the author of many books including The Critique of Cynical Reason, In the World Interior of Capital, Spheres, You Must Change Your Life and What Happened in the 20th Century?

“Only Peter Sloterdijk has the genius to leverage Goethe’s Theory of Colors to write a nuanced but thoroughly devastating critique of the decadent intellectual monoculture of Western neoliberal democracy. Not since Nietzsche have we seen such style and trenchant insight.”Carl A. Raschke, University of Denver"A startingly original theory of 'uncolour'... Sloterdijk is invigoratingly insightful, peeling back the curtain of western metaphysics to show how predetermined we are by metaphors of dark and light."Times Literary Supplement

• Prologue: Under pale sail, over waters of ordinariness1. Ge-gräu: the Gathering of the Grey: light in Plato’s cave, Hegel’s twilight, Heidegger’s fogFirst Digression: Kafka’s Corridor 2. Extension of the political theory of colour: the grey flags flutter ahead of usSecond Digression: Grey Zones3. Spectral Grey: On the ancient suffering of light in its descent into darkness and its more recent exploits on salt and silverThird Digression: Of Grey and Woman4. Grey that touches you: In the storm, in the north, by the sea, in the mountainsFourth Digression: What Cézanne’s grey is all about5. The grey ecstasies: Mystical rap, tepid drift, creative indifference, and the difficulty of defending God against suspicions of indifferenceNotes

Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design. He is one of the most influential philosophers writing today and is the author of many books including The Critique of Cynical Reason, In the World Interior of Capital, Spheres, You Must Change Your Life and What Happened in the 20th Century?

“Only Peter Sloterdijk has the genius to leverage Goethe’s Theory of Colors to write a nuanced but thoroughly devastating critique of the decadent intellectual monoculture of Western neoliberal democracy. Not since Nietzsche have we seen such style and trenchant insight.”Carl A. Raschke, University of Denver"A startingly original theory of 'uncolour'... Sloterdijk is invigoratingly insightful, peeling back the curtain of western metaphysics to show how predetermined we are by metaphors of dark and light."Times Literary Supplement

• Prologue: Under pale sail, over waters of ordinariness1. Ge-gräu: the Gathering of the Grey: light in Plato’s cave, Hegel’s twilight, Heidegger’s fogFirst Digression: Kafka’s Corridor 2. Extension of the political theory of colour: the grey flags flutter ahead of usSecond Digression: Grey Zones3. Spectral Grey: On the ancient suffering of light in its descent into darkness and its more recent exploits on salt and silverThird Digression: Of Grey and Woman4. Grey that touches you: In the storm, in the north, by the sea, in the mountainsFourth Digression: What Cézanne’s grey is all about5. The grey ecstasies: Mystical rap, tepid drift, creative indifference, and the difficulty of defending God against suspicions of indifferenceNotes