Peter Sloterdijk

Peter Sloterdijk (born June 26, 1947 in Karlsruhe) is a renowned German philosopher and a professor of philosophy and media theory at the Karlsruhe School of Design. Sloterdijk's philosophy strikes a balance between the firm academicism of a scholarly professor and a certain sense of anti-academicism (witness his ongoing interest in the ideas of Osho ("Rajneesh" Chandra Mohan Jain), whose disciple he became in the late seventies). Notwithstanding the criticism that some of his thoughts have provoked