After a long period of contemplation, Peter Sloterdijk has succumbed to the inevitable. Anyone who publishes lines and days, the predecessor book that has been turned into a hype by critics and readers, cannot escape demands for a sequel any more than they can resist the temptations of a book-length transformation, showcasing the private as public and vice versa. Lines and Days combines a grand mix of social novel and social analysis for our time. And another example: Is it necessary to read this? Absolutely. In doing so, one learns that nowadays, anyone who can read and write presents their findings about the ailing society of the present. Society thus becomes the most overdiagnosed patient. If I were society, I wouldn't know which affliction to choose to suffer from. Peter Sloterdijk faces the meaning and purpose of daily life every day.