Sloterdijk and the AFD: settlement with the impossibility Party – Tagesspiegel

Peter Sloterdijk is known for its volatility. And for a certain fuzziness of his formulations. Scharf his words are still. In the refugee debate the 69-year-old philosopher in 2015 had warned in an interview with the magazine “Cicero” in front of “rolling over Germany”, sang a “praise the border”. Analogous to Pegida-term “Lies Press” he spoke of the “lies ether” – and earned plenty of criticism. Sloterdijk fought in the “time” to the “over-arousal” and “primitive reflexes” the dissenters. His opponents Herfried Münkler he invited to a podium in five years, “we should then are still alive”. To an exchange about who was right in the refugee issue

It is possible that Peter Sloterdijk will readjust until then his position a few times. As Stooges AfD he would not apply in any case, as he has now clarified. In an article for the newspaper “Handelsblatt” he calls the Alternative for Germany an “impossibility party who fly the sympathy of innumerable Frustrated”. You meddling “in the pan-European concert of unqualified with state-owned tones” a. By Marc Jongen, the assistant was at the Karlsruhe University of Design Sloterdijk, now sits in the AFD Program Commission and deputy party spokesman in Baden-Württemberg is distancing himself.

However, he shows for his motives understanding. The right “mastermind” Jongen fancy a, “affecting his party rational political” to – “which may not be a completely false intent for a man with a certain philosophical culture”, so Sloterdijk

For full height. his polemic runs Sloterdijk – as in the “time” – as critics of his critics. SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel, who had attacked him in the “mirror” as “right ideology suppliers”, propose helplessly around “as designated losers tend to do it”. Yet evil, “Lord Gabriel is clearly a vast thing in their extension the thinking thing could not keep up.” This is pure cabaret. If the philosopher lamented the “hunger excitation” of journalists must be said that his own desire for excitement is not less.

On his neologism “lies ether” holding firmly Sloterdijk. Modern “communication” media were “everywhere able to confuse the electorate” and had the potential to destabilize democracies. What is meant is obviously more of a media-political complex that manipulates the awareness of citizens. As an example, Sloterdijk calls the lies with which Tony Blair United Kingdom has led to the Iraq war, “a maneuver planned dishonesty”. stuck that politics and the press under a blanket, seduce joint targeting and distort, also belongs to the ideological components of the AFD.

An Era experimental policy?

“From political epidemics” is Sloterdijk five page essay whose real subject is the Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union. The “politically smartest people in the world” acted self-defeating to the Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union decision. this was only possible because we live in an era of “experimental policy”. Sentiments liquefy policy approach to the game. The exchange of arguments and counter-arguments would be replaced by a “constant struggle between epidemics and vaccinations”. For both attended media campaigns. As examples of the advance of “unsound, even neurotic in the political space” called Sloterdijk Berlusconi and Sarkozy, as well as the “uninhibited clown” in the US, meaning Donald Trump.

Similarly, perhaps not quite as wortgewaltig that any European liberals would formulate. Populism defined Sloterdijk as “aggression form of simplification”, which he attributes to not only the populists, but also the Populum, the people responsible for it. United is currently the “desire for incompetence in power”.

The Karlsruher thinker likes to talk by the people, want to have but not a lot to do with him. That he could be a whisperers, justifier or Next thinkers unqualified right-wing populists, he considers a grotesque misunderstanding.

The Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union, it is believed Peter Sloterdijk will not actually take place. It will be for years to negotiate him to death, and “its practical consequences will lose in the impalpable”. So clear? The time triumphs over excitement? In September the way Sloterdijk next book, the erotic novel “Schelling project” Suhrkamp published.