Sloterdijk defines cynicism as ''enlightened false consciousness'', a sensibility which is well off and miserable at the same time, able to function in the workaday world yet assailed by doubt and paralysis. Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements, Sightings: Five Preliminary Reflections, Cynicism in World Process, Physiognomic Main Text, Logical Main Text, Historical Main Text, Index.