Peter Sloterdijk

Peter Sloterdijk (born 1947) is a German philosopher, cultural theorist, and author. He studied philosophy, history, and German literature in Munich and Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1976. He has worked as a freelance writer since the 1980s. From 2001 to 2015, he was rector of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, where he taught philosophy and aesthetics. Among his best-known works is the 1983 book “Critique of Cynical Reason.” In 2005, he received the Sigmund Freud Prize for Scholarly Prose. From 1978 to 1980, he stayed at an ashram in Pune, India.