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181 " Modernity has invented the loser. "
― Peter Sloterdijk , Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation
182 " Clinically speaking, hysteria is - not only among the religious - the ability to somatize figures of speech; from a philosophical perspective, one could say that hysterics are individuals who delay their coming-into-the-world until they can exit into overheated language games; their manner of existence is the epitome of metaphysical neurosis. The hysterics move without any interlude, as it were, or after a long period of latency somewhere inconspicuous, from the womb into the house of language - or the hall of sounds and grand acoustic gestures. Through language and gestures, they hope to skip the phase of pre-linguistic forlornness, the infant trauma, and make it never have happened. Hence, perhaps, their ability to make verbal expressions glow in their own bodies. "
― Peter Sloterdijk
183 " Cuando el revolucionario, el surrealista, el embaucador y el criminal expeditivo se unen en una sola figura, emerge el héroe sintético del siglo ⅩⅩ en el terreno político: el duce, el generalissimo, el strongman, el Führer, a menudo rodeado del mito del salvador o del aura de un delegado de la providencia. No es necesario explicar por qué la demanda de tales figuras disminuye en los tiempos relativamente tranquilos; y bajo estrés económico elevado vuelven a estar en coyuntura. "
― Peter Sloterdijk , Las epidemias políticas
184 " right man to prepare the citizens of his country, who were facing disempowerment, for the benefits of the vita contemplativa. The transition to reflective existence was worth an error in reasoning: Cicero unhesitatingly created a lofty nimbus for the future Roman spectator by portraying Pythagoras making the many in the stadium into the few in study. "
― Peter Sloterdijk , The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice
185 " Aquello que cambió en comparación con la época entre las dos guerras mundiales, se puede resumir en cuatro factores que emergieron recientemente: la revolución de las redes de comunicación a través de Internet; la transición de los sistemas internacionales de designación del enemigo, de la Guerra Fría a la defensa contra el terrorismo; el surgimiento de los códigos lingüísticos neomoralistas que se denominan political correctness; y, finalmente, el desencadenamiento de los flujos de refugiados que fluyen desde zonas de grave inviabilidad hacia las áreas "
186 " In our context, this means that the practicing complex of the early bios theoretikós constantly has to be examined together with the formation of mental attitudes through the new conquest of reality by the written word. The primary mode of “looking” is unmistakably co-conditioned by the European mode of reading. For Europeans, the world and the book began to be mutually analogous early on. This configuration held fast over a period of more than two thousand years and first changed with Renaissance painting, when the world and panel painting revealed a new equivalence. The cartography of the modern age also played its part in abolishing the book-world analogy by elevating globes and maps to being the main media of the pragmatic worldview. "
187 " contrast, ancient European access to the experiential world was preformed by grammatical dressage; in fact, in this literacy zone the actual intellectual material offered by the world was formatted according to letter, syllable, line, page, paragraph, and chapter. "