Peter Sloterdijk

Giovanni Leghissa

doi:10.13135/2385-1945/10876

Giovanni Leghissa University of Turin

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/10876

Abstract

One of the tasks that philosophy has always set itself is to question the forms in which human habitation on earth takes place. Few contemporary authors have taken this task as seriously as Peter Sloterdijk. But therein lies the originality of the Karlsruhe philosopher. Having placed at the centre of his reflections the analysis of the various ways in which the historical phenomenology of the construction of inhabited spaces unfolds has forced Sloterdijk to contaminate his discourse with that of all the disciplines that strive to understand the genesis and structure of the ecumene made up of humans, non-human living beings and inanimate objects, among which the artefacts designed by humans must be included. And here we see the turning point in his thinking

Author Biography

Giovanni Leghissa, University of Turin

Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin. Editor of "aut aut", director of the online philosophy magazine "Philosophy Kitchen". He has taught philosophy at the Universities of Vienna, Trieste and at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe.