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From Equality to Pluri-elitism: Terms of a Debate |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE SOCIAL GOOD |
| Author: Virgil Nemoianu |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 4,440 Words, 28,271 Characters |
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The title of a recently published and already celebrated German book, A Critique of Cynical Reason, has begun to invite comparison with the works of one of the greatest among the great. Peter Sloterdijk is in fact a cocky young man who deals much less with abstractions, and more with concrete situations in social history, literature, and psychology. The anxious reader will easily allow himself to be captivated by the author's marvelous analyses of symptoms; it is not hard to follow his fanciful lucubrations on the roots of evil in modern societies or even share his hope for an ironic, ribald, and peaceful anarchism of the future. A more attentive glance, however, will discover below these colorful surface structures a graver and more anxious project: how to preserve individuality in a worl...
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...l articulation as well as their development in different theoretical directions would be clearly positive ways of responding to the challenge of an overwhelming emphasis on equality in the political arena and in theoretical writings. The books of Harouel and Sloterdijk are steps in the right direction, but they are little more than a beginning; the field to be explored is large and fascinating.
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