Sloterdijk, Peter,Der Staat streifte seine Samthandschuhe ab. Ausgewählte Gespräche und Beiträge 2020–2021
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: espite it feeling eerie to speak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the past tense, we are now able to mull over what transpired specifically the first two years, how we, both as individuals and states alike, reacted to the pandemic's development.It is on this point that the current book under review comes into the picture.Translated into English as The State Removed its Velvet Gloves, the 15 selected talks and interviews of Peter Sloterdijk given in 2020-2021, which comprise this book, probe the unmasking or, better put, ungloving of the contemporary state's gentleness, evident in its stringent hold considered as pandemic measures.All chapters bar four (two for both English and French) originally appear in German, yet I provide their titles' translation: (1) The Western system turns out to be equally authoritarian as the Chinese.An interview with Christophe Ono-dit-Biot; ( 2) There is no place left for exaggerations.An interview with Adam Soboczynski; (3) Coimmunism in the age of pandemics and climate change.An interview with Nathan Gardels; (4) Humans are not ready to protect nature.An interview with Neil King und Gabriel Borrud (3 and 4 being the only works to have originally appeared in English); (5) The human person, the distance-being; (6) The state shows its stern fist.An interview with Tomasz Kurianowicz; (7) Please explain to us the time in which we live!An interview with Willem Allexander Tell; (8) Is it legitimate to not fear Corona?An interview with Willem Allexander Tell; (9) Are we living beyond our means?An interview with Willem Allexander Tell; (10) Humor, a civic vaccine.An interview with Christophe Ono-dit-Biot; (11) On the discomfort in fiscal culture; (12) Living with Excuses.An interview with Lucius Maltzan und Simon Nehrer; (13) One cannot live in the riot.An interview with Lothar Schröder; (14) Why are more 1
DOI: 10.25138/17.2.br
Author: Anton Heinrich Rennesland
Institution: University of Santo Tomas
Language: German
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4390710777