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In The Shadow of Mount Sinai (Hardcover)
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In The Shadow of Mount Sinai (Hardcover)
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In this short book Peter Sloterdijk clarifies his views on religion
and its role in pre-modern and modern societies. He begins by
returning to the Mount Sinai episode in the Book of Exodus, where
he identifies the emergence of what he calls the 'Sinai Schema'. At
the core of monotheism is the logic of belonging to a community of
confession, of being a true believer - this is what Sloterdijk
calls the Sinai Schema. To be a member of a people means that you
submit to the beliefs of the community just as you submit to its
language. Monotheism is predicated on the logic of one God who
demands your utmost loyalty. Hence at the core of monotheism is
also the fear of apotheosis, of heresy, of heterodoxy. So
monotheism is associated first and foremost with a certain kind of
internal violence D namely, a violence against those who violate
their membership through a break in loyalty and trust. On the basis
of this analysis of the inner logic of monotheism, Sloterdijk
retraces its historical legacy and shows how this account enables
us to understand why we react so nervously today to all forms of
fundamentalism - whether that of radical Islamists, the Catholic
Pius Brotherhood or evangelical sects in the USA
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