Peter SloterdijkThinkers

Being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠inherently and always already a sociable and inherently relational thing.

Cosmopolitanism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a catchword already circulating in plato's lifetime. It openly proclaimed that thinkers were no longer affiliated to a particular local community, but saw themselves as citizens of the universe.

Culture (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the result of cohesive energies, of heat radiating from solidarity. He defines culture as 'anthropogenic hothouses' where one finds not only a house, but a hearth a kind of 'thermal socialism' that turns into politics when that heat is not evenly distributed.

Cynical reason (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠enlightened false consciousness... enlightened because it has acquired knowledge of specific political interests disguised under self-proclaimed universal or disinterested judgments... but false because it characterizes action based on that knowledge as naive, retro, unsophisticated, and apt to make the agent appear ridiculous in the eyes of an authoritative other.

Cynical reason (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the idea that ideology today is not just false consciousness ,but rather a kind of cynicism whereby we know the falsehood of our ideology very well, that is, we are well aware of a particular interest hidden behind an ideological universality, but still we do not renounce it.

Ethics (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the stepping out from the quotidian and the accepted that calls for the production of new spaces of subjectivity and agency.

The Foam society (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠our present society which is a highly complex, even chaotic, acentric agglomeration of microspheres (couples, households, companies, associations) of different formats that are adjacent to one another, structured one layer over/under the other, without really being accessible to the separable from one another'.

Globalization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the overcoming of distance. The ancient greeks first created a metaphysical globalization, followed by a 15th century nautical globalization, followed by a global provincialism.

God (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the location of a transcendent repository of suspended human rage-savings and frozen plans of revenge.

Habit (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠central to our very nature. Man is fundamentally a creature of habits, of practices, of exercises and is therefore what his habits make of him. Before we are the performance of our freedom, we are the performer of practices and exercises that subjectivize us.

History (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not that which happens in space, but that which produces spaces.