Sloterdijk, Peter,Der Staat streifte seine Samthandschuhe ab. Ausgewählte Gespräche und Beiträge 2020–2021

espite it feeling eerie to speak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the past tense, we are now able to mull over what transpired specifically the first two years, how we, both as individuals and states alike, reacted to the pandemic's development.It is on this point that the current book under review comes into the picture.Translated into English as The State Removed its Velvet Gloves, the 15 selected talks and interviews of Peter Sloterdijk given in 2020-2021, which comprise this book, probe the unmasking or, better put, ungloving of the contemporary state's gentleness, evident in its stringent hold considered as pandemic measures.All chapters bar four (two for both English and French) originally appear in German, yet I provide their titles' translation: (1) The Western system turns out to be equally authoritarian as the Chinese.An interview with Christophe Ono-dit-Biot; (2) There is no place left for exaggerations.An interview with Adam Soboczynski; (3) Coimmunism in the age of pandemics and climate change.An interview with Nathan Gardels; (4) Humans are not ready to protect nature.An interview with Neil King und Gabriel Borrud (3 and 4 being the only works to have originally appeared in English); (5) The human person, the distance-being; (6) The state shows its stern fist.An interview with Tomasz Kurianowicz; (7) Please explain to us the time in which we

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