In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter
Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of
religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there
is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing
significance in the present: the human as a practising, training
being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby
transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke formulated the drive towards
such self-training in the early twentieth century in the imperative
'You must change your life'.
In making his case for the expansion of the practice zone for
individuals and for society as a whole, Sloterdijk develops a
fundamental and fundamentally new anthropology. The core of his
science of the human being is an insight into the self-formation of
all things human. The activity of both individuals and collectives
constantly comes back to affect them: work affects the worker,
communication the communicator, feelings the feeler.
It is those humans who engage expressly in practice that embody
this mode of existence most clearly: farmers, workers, warriors,
writers, yogis, rhetoricians, musicians or models. By examining
their training plans and peak performances, this book offers a
panorama of exercises that are necessary to be, and remain, a human
being.
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