Du musst dein Leben ändern

For Peter Sloterdijk, the Earth is a "Planet of Practitioners." Farmers, workers, warriors, writers, yogis, rhetoricians, instrumental virtuosos, or models, they all are practitioners and embody most clearly the way of existence of humans as beings that generate themselves through practice. Rainer Maria Rilke articulated the drive for such exercises at the beginning of the 20th century in the form: "You must change your life." In his extensive investigation into the nature of humanity, Peter Sloterdijk compiles training plans and peak performances into an enjoyable and instructive reading about the exercises necessary to be and remain human. In his bestseller, Peter Sloterdijk calls for a fundamental change in the perception of the individual and society. The core of his science of humanity is the insight into the self-formation of all that is human. The human, who continually re-generates themselves as a practitioner, becomes a being that transcends themselves.