In this book, Peter Sloterdijk touches on all modern genres of the arts, from music to architecture, from the use of light to the living arts, from design to typography. He travels through all fields of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, in a historical arc that stretches from antiquity to Hollywood. When he applies his particular method of distancing himself from discourse to the contemplation of works and artistic genres, the objects described are suddenly shown in a different light, and with his awake and combative sense of the present he leads us far, far off the beaten path of the world. artistic comment.

Throughout the pages of it unfolds the very singular way, at the same time jovial and serious, with which the great German philosopher analyzes the most disparate aesthetic phenomena, characterizing the aesthetics of art and the arts.