Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe, Germany, 1947), one of the most prestigious and controversial contemporary philosophers, is dean of the School of Information and Design Karlsruhe and Professor of Philosophy of Culture and Media Theory at the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts. In his extensive work can be highlighted, among others, his novel The Magic Tree and nonfiction books Thinker in scene Eurotaoísmo, Estrangement world (Ernst Robert Curtius Prize 1993) and the scorn of the masses.