Chapter One: Twilight of the Gods: "Every world of gods is followed by a twilight of the gods."Chapter Two: Is The World Affirmable? On the Transformation of the Basic Mood in the Religiosity of Modernity, with Regard Primarily to Martin Luther1. The Eccentric Accentuation2. And They Saw That It Was Not Good3. The Derivation of the Reformation from the Spirit of Tempered Despair4. Protestant EntropyChapter Three: The True Heresy: Gnosticism; On the World-Religion of Worldlessness1. Where Nag Hammadi Is Located2. How the Real World Finally Became an Error3. A Short History of Authentic Time4. Gnosticism as Negative Psychology5. Demiurgical Humanism - On the Gnosticism of Modern ArtChapter Four: Closer to Me Than I Am Myself: A Theological Preparation for the Theory of the Shared InsideChapter Five: God's Bastard: The Caesura of JesusChapter Six: Improving the Human Being: Philosophical Notes on the Problem of Anthropological DifferenceChapter Seven: Epochs of Ensoulment: Suggestions for a Philosophy of the History of NeurosisChapter Eight: Latency: On Concealment1. Emergence of the Crypta2. Maximally Invasive Operation3. Boxing-in as Latency-Production4. Wadding up and Unfolding5. Intuitive Integral CalculusChapter Nine: The Mystical Imperative: Remarks on Changing Shape of Religion in the Modern Age1. Martin Buber's Ecstatic Confessions as an Epochal Symptom2. Religion in the Age of the Experiment3. World Arena and Unmarked SpaceChapter Ten: Absolute and Categorical ImperativeChapter Eleven: News about the Will to Believe: A Note on DesecularizationChapter Twelve: Chances in the Monstrous: A Note on the Metamorphosis of the ReligiousDomain in the Modern World, with Reference to a Few Motifs in William JamesEditorial Note
Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design. He is one of the most influential philosophers writing today and is the author of many books including The Critique of Cynical Reason, In the World Interior of Capital, Spheres, You Must Change Your Life and What Happened in the 20th Century?
