Peter Sloterdijk

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