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Where to start with sloterdijk? and is he gnostic?

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caustic midwits

Adorno was a gnostic who leaned a little too much into the doom and gloom.

I love this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe

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What does /lit/ think of him?

>“After Nag Hammadi” – this phrase has meanwhile become a sort of caesura in the history of ideas. Even Christians must begin to understand that they live after an event in whose light their faith takes on another meaning, one that is still incomprehensible to them. Is Christianity perhaps not Platonism for the people, as Nietzsche once said, but rather Gnosticism for the people?

Holy based, why didn't anyone tell me he was a hyperborean?

>With the help of the previously unthinkable distinction between “in the world” and “of the world,” the human spirit gains the ability to think for the first time of the fact of its own existing; put hyperbolically, what we, in modernity, designate by the term “existence” “is given” only with the eruption of Gnosticism. Pneuma, the Gnostic spirit-soul that comes from “above,” is the organ of this logically new sort of knowledge about existing: it is pneuma that can see itself “in the world” as something that has entered from the outside – as something different, which does not belong and is capable of withdrawing.

>Gnosticism is the igniting of human self-consciousness by means of the fundamental thought of existing “in the world.”

What did he mean by this?

Is he the greatest living philosopher today?

>start reading
>become a sloterdijkian
Anyone else?

>The god of Gnosticism is largely spared from condescending to existence; he is exempted from creating the world directly. The thoughtful remembrance of such a god must incite a pneumatic turn in the serious thinker – so long as she does not remain stuck in neophyte confusions and see mirages. As soon as the thought of negation flares up, those capable of aligning themselves with this de-creating, supra-existing, predicateless, and acosmic supergod in their own thinking will reckon that they are awakening from a life-distorting nightmare of baser realism; the naughted god becomes a partner in the soul’s effort to unbind itself from the compulsion of the world.

>The soul’s alignment with such a “father” gives rise to a world’s downfall with eyes wide open. Here too, imitatio Dei [the imitation of God] makes the human being what he ultimately can be: a being of the limit.

Holy BASED... Sloterdijk? more like slaughterdrip.

>Gnosticism administers an immediate flight from the world as antidote to the poison of the cosmos. Civil disobedience against the belly, general strike against the astral factory, baths in tears, fasting of the heart – these are the mêlée weapons of Gnostic sapience. This dissociative askesis dreams of refuting reality by being constantly other than it.

>When the soul has shaken off the dust of its acquired properties, it grasps itself in its original freedom from properties, as though for the first time and yet once again – as something perfect, something that has not come to be, something hovering.

Holy based... why didn't anyone tell me Sloterdijk was a gnostic poet?

>The amoral Gnosticism leads to a homeopathic askesis: this weakens the evil by perpetrating it thoughtfully, ironically as it were, like a task to be accomplished. The Gnostic embraces sin and, in going through it, experiences his body decay in a critical manner. When he is spent, he can then at last climb out of the gutter – the world is a pornographic purgatory from which spotless pneumata [spirits] are filtered out.

Holy based... why didn't anyone tell me Sloterdijk BTFO guenon?

Is he a gnostic a mystic or an atheist?

> The ability to be evil to an evil creator is part of the damned cleverness of Gnosticism; whoever has a Gnostic disposition is skilled at countering the works of a confused demiurge with the blessed coldbloodedness of one who sees through the cosmic concoction, after being only temporarily taken in by it; hence the heretical sympathy for clever snakes, rebellious angels, and Luciferian paradoxes.

Holy based... why didn't anyone tell me Sloterdijk was a gnostic?

What do you think of him, /lit/? I think he's tremendously insightful.

I'll start