Peter Sloterdijk, a German writer and philosopher, is authoer most recently of Critique of Cynical Reason. This article was translated by Margarita Nieto and Nathan Gardels. It originally appeared in the Mexican monthly, Nexus.
Berlin - A globalized world announces the end
of a sedentarism and, with it, the concept of a homeland. What has produced
this change in contemporary man and in his idea of what it means to belong
to a specific place?