In the Shadow of Mount Sinai: A Footnote on the Origins and Changing Forms of Total Membership

by Peter Sloterdijk

Book Overview

In this short book Peter Sloterdijk clarifies his views on religion and its role in pre-modern and modern societies. He begins by returning to the Mount Sinai episode in the Book of Exodus, where he identifies the emergence of what he calls the ?Sinai Schema?. At the core of monotheism is the logic of belonging to a community of confession, of being a true believer - this is what Sloterdijk calls the Sinai Schema. To be a member of a people means...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745699243
• ISBN13: 9780745699240
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.7" x 7.3"