Jul 20, 2025
About cynicism
This post is based on the following quote from Peter Sloterdijk’s Critique of Cynical Reason:Cynicism is enlightened false consciousness. It is that modernized, unhappy consciousness, on which enlightenment has laboured both successfully and in vain. It has learned its lessons in enlightenment, but it has not, and probably was not able to, put them into practice. Well‑off and miserable at the…
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