Download or read book Critique of Cynical Reason written by Peter Sloterdijk and published by Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its publication in Germany in 1983, this author's book stirred both critical acclaim and consternation, attracting a wide readership. He finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture, in personal and institutional settings; his book is both a history of the impulse and an investigation of its role today, among those whose earlier hopes for social change have crumbled and faded away.