Der Zauberbaum

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Der Zauberbaum
AuthorPeter Sloterdijk
LanguageGerman
PublisherSuhrkamp Verlag
Publication date
1985
Publication placeWest Germany
Pages322
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Der Zauberbaum[1] (lit. 'The Magic Tree') is a 1985 novel by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. It is about a young Austrian physician, Jan van Leyden, who becomes a disciple of the Marquis de Puységur.[2]

Sloterdijk has said Der Zauberbaum is one of the most difficult books he has written, because it was his first novel and forced him to "conquer a freedom" he previously did not think was possible. Although it is a historical novel set in the 18th century, he describes it as a "translated autobiography" that closely follows his life from 1975 to 1985, which was a time characterised by self-discovery and included a trip to India where he lived for several months in a guru's community.[3]

The book was published in the wake of Sloterdijk's breakthrough as a public intellectual with the 1983 book Critique of Cynical Reason, to which it ties in thematically. Der Zauberbaum is critical of psychoanalysis and its reliance on a Cartesian view of science and the subject. The scholar Till R. Kuhnle (de) describes it as a Bildungsroman which expresses positions that approach Lebensphilosophie.[4]

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  1. ^ Full title: Der Zauberbaum. Die Entstehung der Psychoanalyse im Jahr 1785. Ein epischer Versuch zur Philosophie der Psychologie (lit. 'The Magic Tree: The Emergence of Psychoanalysis in 1785: An Epic Essay on the Philosophy of Psychology')
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