Peter Sloterdijk was born on June 26, 1947, the son of a German mother and a Dutch father. From 1968 to 1974 he studied Philosophy, History and German Studies in Munich and at the University of Hamburg. In 1971 Sloterdijk wrote his master's thesis titled Structuralism as poetic hermeneutics. In 1972/73, an essay on Michel Foucault's structural theory of history and a study entitled The Economics of Language Games followed. On the criticism of the linguistic constitution of objects. In 1976, Peter Sloterdijk of Professor Klaus Briegleb on the subject of literature and organization of life experience. Genre theory and genre history of the autobiography of the Weimar Republic 1918-1933 doctorate. Between 1978 and 1980 Sloterdijk stayed in the Ashram of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later Osho) in Pune, India. Since the 1980s Sloterdijk works as a freelance writer. The book Critic of Cynical Reason, published in 1983 by Suhrkamp Verlag, is one of the best-selling philosophical books of the 20th century. From 2001-2015 Sloterdijk was the successor of Heinrich Klotz Rector of the State College of Design in Karlsruhe.

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