Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design. He is one of the most influential philosophers writing today and is the author of many books including The Critique of Cynical Reason, In the World Interior of Capital, Spheres, You Must Change Your Life and What Happened in the 20th Century?

Chapter One: Twilight of the Gods: "Every world of gods is followed by a twilight of the gods."
Chapter Two: Is The World Affirmable? On the Transformation of the Basic Mood in the Religiosity of Modernity, with Regard Primarily to Martin Luther
1. The Eccentric Accentuation
2. And They Saw That It Was Not Good
3. The Derivation of the Reformation from the Spirit of Tempered Despair
4. Protestant Entropy
Chapter Three: The True Heresy: Gnosticism; On the World-Religion of Worldlessness
1. Where Nag Hammadi Is Located
2. How the Real World Finally Became an Error
3. A Short History of Authentic Time
4. Gnosticism as Negative Psychology
5. Demiurgical Humanism - On the Gnosticism of Modern Art
Chapter Four: Closer to Me Than I Am Myself: A Theological Preparation for the Theory of the Shared Inside
Chapter Five: God's Bastard: The Caesura of Jesus
Chapter Six: Improving the Human Being: Philosophical Notes on the Problem of Anthropological Difference
Chapter Seven: Epochs of Ensoulment: Suggestions for a Philosophy of the History of Neurosis
Chapter Eight: Latency: On Concealment
1. Emergence of the Crypta
2. Maximally Invasive Operation
3. Boxing-in as Latency-Production
4. Wadding up and Unfolding
5. Intuitive Integral Calculus
Chapter Nine: The Mystical Imperative: Remarks on Changing Shape of Religion in the Modern Age
1. Martin Buber's Ecstatic Confessions as an Epochal Symptom
2. Religion in the Age of the Experiment
3. World Arena and Unmarked Space
Chapter Ten: Absolute and Categorical Imperative
Chapter Eleven: News about the Will to Believe: A Note on Desecularization
Chapter Twelve: Chances in the Monstrous: A Note on the Metamorphosis of the Religious
Domain in the Modern World, with Reference to a Few Motifs in William James
Editorial Note