A work by this thinker documents the history of what he calls “anthropotechnics,” which “(re-)merges entities that were already inseparable in primitive times.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this German philosopher, the author of You Must Change Your Life and the Spheres trilogy. This thinker’s Critique of Cynical Reason is widely read as a response to the postmodern thought of the 1960s and ’70s.
ANSWER: Peter Sloterdijk (“pee-tuh SLOW-tuh-dyke”)
[10e] Peter Sloterdijk’s controversial advocacy for the use of genetic technologies resulted in this thinker calling Sloterdijk a Nazi. This thinker wrote The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and The Theory of Communicative Action.
ANSWER: Jürgen Habermas
[10m] Sloterdijk deeply influenced this French thinker, who reappraised his own work in the essay “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam?” This thinker pioneered actor–network theory and also wrote We Have Never Been Modern.
ANSWER: Bruno Latour
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