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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.
List of contents
Klaus-Dieter Müller: Foreword.- Europe, post-historical.- Heiner Mühlmann's Maximal-Stress-Cooperation-Theory.- Europe after Napoleon.- Italy 1918: Falsification of the results of war, politics in a big way.- France 1945: The double falsification.- Germany 1945: Metanoia.- France 2007: Imperial temptation and the implosion of the left-wing.- Germany 2007: The idiot of the European family in teh phase of normalization - the Walser Affair.- Happy disassociation: Polemological prospects with René Girard.- About the Author.
About the author
Peter Sloterdijk is professor of aesthetics and philosophy at the Institute of Design in Karlsruhe and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Recently named one of the worlds top intellectuals by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines, his numerous works include Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation and the best-selling Critique of Cynical Reason.
