Peter Sloterdijk vs. Jurgen Habermas: A Society of AcademicSpectacles?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Johannes wrote:
>Its the latest intelectual debate in Germany. Last year we had the Walser
>debate. More or less its the old-fashioned Bonn republic liberals against
>the now fashionable neo-conservatives from the Berlin republic.

Egad, the evil of two lessers!  (Just the sort of controversies that give
Jim Heartfield a steady livelihood -- not that I begrudge him his good
fortune, though.)  Are there any German intellectuals worth reading -- I
mean our contemporaries?  Any recommendations?

BTW, what's the Walser debate?  Another debate that shows the evil of two
lessers?

Yoshie