Peter Sloterdijk’s Anthropological Pessimism in Rules for the Human Zoo

Abstract

In   this   paper   I   comment   the   philosophical   anthropology

contained   in   Sloterdijk’s   Rules   for   the   Human   Zoo   as   a

particular   derivative   of   contemporary   anthropological

pessimism.   My   aim   is   then   to   criticize   the   anthropological

vein  of  this  work  using  arguments  already  deployed  against

the   general   paradigm   that   operates   as   framework   of   the

Rules.   The   target   of   the   criticism   is   a   philosophically   and

scientifically   very   controversial   theory   of   humanity   that

usually   performs   the   task   of   legitimating   the   actual   society

by  attributing  biological  origins  to  existing  evils.