Peter Sloterdijk - After God

1 Title page After God Peter Sloterdijk Translated by Ian Alexander Moore polity

2 Copyright page

3 Translator’s Note

4 1 Twilight of the Gods: “Every world of gods is followed by a twilight of the gods” I II III Notes

5 2 Is the World Affirmable? On the Transformation of the Basic Mood in the Religiosity of Modernity, with Special Reference to Martin Luther2.1 The eccentric accentuation 2.2 And they saw that it was not good 2.3 The derivation of the Reformation from the spirit of tempered despair 2.4 Protestant entropy Notes

6 3 The True Heresy: Gnosticism: On the World Religion of Worldlessness3.1 Where Nag Hammadi is located 3.2 How the real world finally became an error 3.3 A short history of authentic time 3.4 Gnosticism as negative psychology 3.5 Demiurgical humanism: On the Gnosticism of modern art References for Chapter 3 Notes

7 4 Closer to Me Than I Am Myself: A Theological Preparation for the Theory of the Shared Inside Notes

8 5 God’s Bastard: The Caesura of Jesus Notes

9 6 Improving the Human Being: Philosophical Notes on the Problem of Anthropological Difference Notes

10 7 Epochs of Ensoulment: Suggestions for a Philosophy of the History of Neurosis Notes

11 8 Latency: On Concealment8.1 Emergence of the krupta 8.2 Maximally invasive operation 8.3 Boxing in as latency production 8.4 Wadding up and unfolding 8.5 Intuitive integral calculus Notes

12 9 The Mystical Imperative: Remarks on the Changing Shape of Religion in the Modern Age9.1 Martin Buber’s Ecstatic Confessions as an epochal symptom 9.2 Religion in the age of the experiment 9.3 World arena and unmarked space Notes

13 10 Absolute and Categorical Imperative Note

14 11 News about the Will to Believe: A Note on Desecularization Notes

15 12 Chances in the Monstrous: A Note on the Metamorphosis of the Religious Domain in the Modern World, with Reference to a Few Motifs in William James Notes

16 Editorial Note

17 End User License Agreement

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Peter Sloterdijk

Translated by Ian Alexander Moore

polity

First published in German as Nach Gott: Glaubens- und Unglaubensversuche , © Suhrkamp Verlag 2017. All rights reserved by and controlled through Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin.

This English edition © Polity Press, 2020

Chapter 5, ‘God’s Bastard: The Jesus-Caesura’ from Modernity’s Enfants Terribles , by Peter Sloterdijk. English translation copyright © 2019 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of Columbia University Press.

Chapter 4, ‘Closer to Me Than I Am Myself’, from Bubbles (Spheres I) , by Peter Sloterdijk. English translation copyright © 2011 Semiotext(e). Reprinted with permission of Semiotext(e).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947- author. | Moore, Ian Alexander, translator.

Title: After God / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Ian Alexander Moore.

Other titles: Nach Gott. English

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020. | First published in German as Nach Gott: Glaubens- und Unglaubensversuche, Suhrkamp Verlag 2017. | Summary: “After God is dedicated to the theological enlightenment of theology. It ranges from the period when gods reigned to reveries about the godlike power of artificial intelligence”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019034770 (print) | LCCN 2019034771 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509533503 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509533510 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509533534 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Death of God theology. | Philosophical theology.