Name: Theory of the Post-War Periods
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ISBN: 9783990432266

A new cultural-theoretical approach is used to develop a philosophy to overcome post-war traumata, or the traumatization effects that affect entire national cultures. The new aspect is the book's study of both France and Germany in its discussion of post-war issues. The reader is given insights into the approaches France and Germany took in their self-evaluation processes. In one case the issue is the admission of total humiliation, and in the other it is salvaging a certain sense of national honor. The book overcomes the speechlessness on the post-war issue that can still be observed in German/French philosophy today.

Studying both France and Germany in its discussion of post-war issues, this book uses a new cultural-theoretical approach to develop a philosophy to overcome post-war traumata, or the traumatization effects that affect entire national cultures.

Zeitgeschichte; Philosophie; contemporary history; Kulturtheorie; Peter Sloterdijk; Politikwissenschaft; philosophy; cultural theory; political science

Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Observations on Franco-German relations since 1945

Theory of the Post-War Periods

Peter Sloterdijk was born in 1947. He studied philosophy, German and History in Munich from 1968 to 1974. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1980, and published a number of articles and books on time diagnosis, cultural and religious philosophy, art theory and psychology. Sloterdijk has been a professor of philosophy and media theory at the Karlsruhe School of Design since 1992. He took charge of the Institute for Cultural Philosophy of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1993. Sloterdijk became the director of the Karlsruhe School of Design in 2001 and has also received a number of awards including the Christian-Kellerer Prize for the future of philosophical thought, and he was named a, "Commandeur de l´Ordre des Arts et des Lettres," by the Republic of France. He also recently received the 2008 Lessing Prize for criticism.

Studying both France and Germany in its discussion of post-war issues, this book uses a new cultural-theoretical approach to develop a philo

Theory of the Post-War Periods

Observations on Franco-German relations since 1945

Peter Sloterdijk
Preface by: Klaus-Dieter Müller
Translated by: Robert Payne

Volume in the series TRACE Transmission in Rhetorics, Arts and Cultural Evolution

Theory of the Post-War Periods

Observations on Franco-German relations since 1945

Peter SloterdijkPreface by: Klaus-Dieter MüllerTranslated by: Robert Payne

Volume in the series TRACE Transmission in Rhetorics, Arts and Cultural Evolution

Peter Sloterdijk
Preface by: Klaus-Dieter Müller
Translated by: Robert Payne