Philosophical moods from Plato to Foucault

I present this translation to the Arab reader, whether the specialist or the one whose interest is attracted by new philosophical harvests, especially German ones. And I have great hope that this work will enrich our Arabic philosophical library with a distinctive, rich, and useful addition. It is certain that the scholar studying philosopher Peter Sloterdijk is not unaware of the difficulty of interpreting his texts in another language, rather the task is almost like a great and arduous adventure. The least that can be said about his style is that it is indeed a style that is easy-aloof, philosophical-literary, sarcastic-embedded with seriousness. I hope I have succeeded in fulfilling the original text, especially since I relied specifically on the English translation, and from time to time I was assisted by the French translation done by Olivier Mannoni and published by the French publisher Libella-Maren Sell in 2011. This book was originally published in its original language under the title Philosophische Temperamente von Platon bis Foucault by the German publisher Diederichs in 2009. The English translation, Philosophical Temperaments From Plato to Foucault, was published in 2013 by Columbia University Press in New York. In this book, Sloterdijk discussed specific models of prominent figures who, with will, generosity, and confidence, drew the map of Western philosophy starting from Greece to the twentieth century (from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Bruno, Descartes, Pascal, and others up to Husserl, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Foucault). It may come to the reader’s mind at a first glance at the table of contents that the book is very ordinary, almost like other books that deal with the biographies of philosophers, but the matter is certainly different, especially in front of a philosopher who adopts Diogenes’ style in his pointed, shining, and penetrating sarcasm.