Critique Of Cynical Reason
by Peter Sloterdijk
University of Minnesota Press, 1988
Paper: 978-0-8166-1586-5
Library of Congress Classification B809.5.S5813 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 149
Paper: 978-0-8166-1586-5
Library of Congress Classification B809.5.S5813 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 149
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Foreword: The Return of Diogenes as Postmodern Intellectual
- Huyssen, Andreas
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE
- SIGHTINGS: FIVE PRELIMINARY REFLECTIONS
- 1.
- Cynicism: The Twilight of False Consciousness
- 2.
- Enlightenment as Dialogue: Critique of Ideology as Continuation of the Miscarried Dialogue through Other Means
- 3.
- Eight Unmaskings: A Review of Critiques
- Critique of Revelation
- Critique of Religious Illusion
- Critique of Metaphysical Illusion
- Critique of the Idealistic Superstructure
- Critique of Moral Illusion
- Critique of Transparency
- Critique of Natural Illusion
- Critique of the Illusion of Privacy
- 4.
- After the Unmaskings: Cynical Twilight. Sketches for the Self-repudiation of the Ethos of Enlightenment
- Enlightened Prevention of Enlightenment
- Breaks in Enlightenment
- Breaking Down Half-Open Doors
- Marxist Elegy: Althusser and the "Break" in Marx
- The Feeling toward Life in Twilight
- 5.
- "In Search of Lost Cheekiness"
- Greek Philosophy of Cheekiness: Kynicism
- Pissing against the Idealist Wind
- Bourgeois Neokynicism: The Arts
- Cynicism as Cheekiness That Has Changed Sides
- Theory of the Double Agent
- Cheeky Social History
- Embodiment or Splitting
- Psychopolitics of Schizoid Society
- Unashamed Happiness
- Meditation on the Bomb
- PART TWO
- CYNICISM IN WORLD PROCESS
- I.
- PHYSIOGNOMIC MAIN TEXT
- 6.
- Concerning the Psychosomatics of the Zeitgeist
- Tongue, Stuck Out
- Mouth, Smiling Maliciously, Crooked
- Mouth, Bitter, Tight
- Mouth, Laughing Loudly, Big-Mouthed
- Mouth, Serene, Still
- Eye Gazes, Eye Blinkers
- Breasts
- Arses
- Fart
- Shit, Refuse
- Genitals
- 7.
- The Cabinet of Cynics
- Diogenes of Sinope: Human Dog, Philosopher, Good-for-Nothing
- Lucian the Mocker, or: Critique Changes Sides
- Mephistopheles, or: The Spirit That Always Denies and the Will to Knowledge
- The Grand Inquisitor, or: The Christian Statesman as Jesus Hunter and the Birth of the Institutional Doctrine out of the Spirit of Cynicism
- Anyone, or: The Most Real Subject of Modern Diifuse Cynicism
- II.
- PHENOMENOLOGICAL MAIN TEXT
- 8.
- The Cardinal Cynicisms
- Military Cynicism
- The Cynicism of State and Hegemonic Power
- Sexual Cynicism
- Medical Cynicism
- Religious Cynicism
- The Cynicism of Knowledge
- 9.
- The Secondary Cynicisms
- Minima Amoralia: Confession, Joke, Crime
- The School of Arbitrariness: Information Cynicism, the Press
- Exchange Cynicism, or: The Hardships of Life
- III.
- LOGICAL MAIN TEXT
- 10.
- Black Empiricism: Enlightenment as Organization of Polemical Knowledge
- Knowledge of War and Espionage
- Police and the Optics of Class Struggle
- Sexuality: The Enemy Is Within–Below
- Medicine and Suspecting the Body
- Nothingness and the Metaphysics of Naked Self-preservation
- Espionage against Nature, Artillery Logic, Political Metallurgy
- 11.
- Transcendental Polemic: Heraclitian Meditations
- Polemic against the Id, or: Think the Devil
- Metapolemic: On the Foundations of European Dialectics in Polemics and Rhythmics
- IV.
- HISTORICAL MAIN TEXT
- The Weimar Symptom: Models of Consciousness in German Modernity
- 12.
- Weimar Crystallization: Transition of a Period from Recollection into History
- 13.
- Dadaistic Chaotology: Semantic Cynicisms
- Excursus 1. Bluff Twilight
- Excursus 2. The Ice Dogs: On the Psychoanalysis of the Cynic
- 14.
- The Republic-as-If. Political Cynicisms I: The Struggle Goes On
- 15.
- The Front and Nothingness. Political Cynicisms II: Populist Dialectics and the Dissolution of the Front
- 16.
- Dead Souls without Testaments. Political Cynicisms III: Looking after War Graves in the Empty Interior
- 17.
- Conspirators and Dissimulators. Political Cynicisms IV: Conviction as Disinhibition
- Excursus 3. The Reasonable Bloodhound: A Social Democratic Elegy
- 18.
- Depersonalization and Alienation. Functionalist Cynicisms I
- 19.
- Artificial Limbs. Functionalist Cynicisms II: On the Spirit of Technology
- Excursus 4. The Fourth Reich–before the Third
- Excursus 5. Total Prosthesis and Technical Surrealism
- 20.
- Political Algodicy: Cynical Cosmologies and the Logic of Pain
- 21.
- Asking for a Napoleon from Within. Political Cynicisms V: Training for Fact People
- 22.
- "Bright Hour": Great Confessions of a Split Consciousness
- 23.
- On the German Republic of Impostors: The Natural History of Deception
- Excursus 6. Political Couéism: The Modernization of Lying
- Excursus 7. Spectral Analysis of Stupidity
- Excursus 8. Actors and Characters
- 24.
- Hey! Are We Alive? New Matter-of-Fact Cynicisms and Stories about the Difficulties of Life
- Excursus 9. Media Cynicism and Training in Arbitrariness
- Excursus 10. People in a Hotel
- 25.
- Postcoital Twilight: Sexual Cynicism and Stories of Intractable Love
- 26.
- Weimar Double Decisions, or: Matter-of-Factness unto Death
- Epilogue. The Pleural Shock: On the Archetype of Weimar Laughter
- Conclusion. Under Way toward a Critique of Subjective Reason
- Index
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