Summer Reading, Richard Murphy: You Must Change Your Life (2014)

In the following I shall discuss, initially using a literary model and later a psychological and sociological context, how acrobatism became an increasingly far-reaching aspect of modern reflection on the human condition: this occurred when, following the trail of the ubiquitous Nietzsche, people discovered in man the unfixed, unleashed animal that is condemned to perform tricks. (61)

Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life, p. 61