You Must Change Your Life Peter Sloterdijk on High-Performance Society

01/02/10  Michael Hübl

Du mußt dein Leben ändern (‘You Must Change Your Life’) is the last book in a trilogy on contemporary capitalism by Peter Sloterdijk. In this, his latest publication, the author focuses on our goal-oriented culture and the manner in which the individual, self-help book in hand, attempts to overcome his/her shortcomings in order to succeed. What role can art play in this over-ambitious, high-performance society?