The Critique of Cynical Reason (Kritik der zynischen Vernunft) is a work by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, published in 1983 as an echo of the bicentenary of Emmanuel Kant's famous Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der Reinen Vernunft), published in 1781. The book is translated into French by Christian Bourgois in 1987 by Hans Hildenbrand. Diogenes the Cynic by Gérôme Criticism of modernity and rationalism, the author finds that the current era is shaken by his belief in the principles of Enlightenment, Aufklärung. The fight against obscurantism, advocating the development of the "lights of reason" can no longer be the order of the day. Sloterdijk opposes him to cynicism ("kunism") (inspired by the Greek cynics) which, according to him, can be considered as a cure, or even an overcoming of the impasse in which, in his view, the project of Enlightenment.

In Germany, the book was the most successful bookstore for a philosophy book for several decades and was favorably received by Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault. Editedit code code

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