INDEX
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absolute object, modern efforts to remove as concept, 96
abyss, internal: centrality to Sloterdijkâs philosophical project, xivâxv; as inescapable, 12â13; modern discovery of, 12â13; philosophersâ reactions to, 92â93; Sartre and, 93
Adorno, Theodor, critique of European metaphysics in, 102n2
adult status: in modern culture, 79; redefining of in Plato, 7â10
aesthetic of the everyday, 96
aesthetic Weltanschauung of Nietzsche, 77â78
Alexander the Great, Aristotle and, xiii, 15â16
alienated subjectivity: bourgeois materialism and, 48; Fichte as founder of, 47, 48â49, 50â51; Marx and, 75
Anglo-American philosophy, Wittgenstein and, 89
anthropology, Kant and, 43â44
Arab world, Platoâs influence on, 2
archeology of Foucault, 99
Aristotle: and Alexander the Great, xiii, 15â16; and bĂos theoretikĂłs (theoretical life), 15; and community of scholars, 16â17; as man of the mean, 17; rejection of, in early modern thought, 15; as root of European university system, 14â15; and scholarship vs. wisdom, 16
art, Schelling as theoretician of, 61
Asian wisdom traditions, Schopenhauer and, 65
Athenian Academy, 2
Augustine, 18â23; continuing influence of, 23; as darker reinterpretation of Plato, 19â20, 21; on grace, 20; on human nature, 20â22; influence on philosophers conception of human nature, 22; as most clearly visible person of antiquity, 18â19; nature of truth in, 22; original sin in, 20â21; Pascal and, 33â34; self-trial and confession of, 18â19, 22; soulâs irreparable separation from Good in, 19â22
author as authority figure, written culture and, 11
autonomous life, modern money culture and, 76
Bacon, Francis: and birth of modernity, 25â26, 27; on knowledge as power, viii
Bataille, Georges, 97
bĂos theoretikĂłs (theoretical life), Aristotle and, 15
birth, symbolic, in tribal cultures, 7
Blanchot, Maurice, 97
Blasen [Bubbles] (Sloterdijk), x, xi
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 47, 55â56
boundaries, in Kant, 44
bourgeois age, modernity as, 41
bourgeois cult of genius, 88
bourgeois materialism, Fichte on, 47â48
bourgeois philosophy, Kant and, 41â44
Bruno, Giordano, 24â26; and Christian scholasticism, emergence from, 24; cooptation of by later philosophers, 24â25; and poetic prose in philosophy, 11; as universalist, 37
Bubbles [Blasen] (Sloterdijk), x, xi
Cardano, Girolamo, 37
certainty: groundless instability underlying, 82â83; necessity of, 82
chaos theory: Schopenhauer and, 64â65; and uprooting of Platonism, 3
Christianity: basis in Platonic idealism, xi, 2; as catastrophe for philosophy, 20â21; and dominance of interpreters over text, 71â72; Kant and, 41â42, 43; theology, Hellenization of, 2, 19
Christian-Platonic philosophy: Foucaultâs replacement of, 96â100; Hegel and, 52, 67; Heidegger and, 96; Marx and, 75; modernistsâ efforts to replace, 95â96; Nietzsche and, 3, 33â34, 80â81, 96, 97; reason as foundation of, xiiiâxiv, 7â8; Schopenhauer and, 64â65
Christian scholasticism, emergence from: Bruno and, 24; Descartes and, 27â29
classicism, Reformation self-reading and, 42
Clavel, Maurice, 99â100
common mind, philosophersâ alienation from, 48
communicative action theory, 96
Confessiones (Augustine), 18
consciousness: as basis of material phenomena, 82; history of, Schelling on, 60â61
constitutional state, as end of history in Hegel, 55
contemplation and science, interlacing of, in philosophical thought, 31
continental philosophy, Wittgenstein and, 89
Critique of Cynical Reason (Sloterdijk), x
cynicism, types of in Sloterdijk, x
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