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Eivind Tjønneland

Historian of ideas and author. Regular critic in MODERN TIMES. (Former professor of literature at the University of Bergen.)
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Politics in the Age of the Godless

What do we have left in the faithless society – where man will not obey any higher power, but himself be this power? 
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Hitler writing, diaper changing and writing success with German success

Knausgårds books create addicts. Only when the active substances have been surveyed is there hope for rehabilitation.
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Aries and witness

In his book on Heidegger and Nazism, Hans Hauge overlooked the massive Nazi narrative that prevailed in postwar Germany. 
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"There is a storm of hurt feelings throughout the world"

For "Generation Snowflake" you are nothing if you are not a victim. 
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The rebirth of ideology criticism

The phenomenon of Trump has given new impetus to ideology criticism.
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Stein Mehren – cultural radicals and romantic mystics

Stein Mehren is best known for his poems, but he also stands in a special position among Norwegian post-war secessionists: awake, contentious and with a keen look at current issues.
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Narcissism and resonance

Martin Altmeyer is fed up with criticism of social media and wants to redefine the concept of narcissism. But does he succeed?
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Increasing conformity

The selfie culture threatens to reduce us to marketing agents of our social-media personality, two German authors believe.
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Fuck autonomy! 

Houellebecq's French dystopia coincides with Arne Garborg's Norwegian decadence. Both write ironic development novels with solutions they themselves do not believe in.
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