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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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Female orgasm – what's the point?

In a time when physiological explanations for human action reign, Peter Sloterdijk has written an important novel. 
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How to live together

Excerpt from a new book based on Roland Barthes: Living together all the time can become claustrophobic. But we can live side by side. 
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Biblical beginnings of journalism

Derrida's juxtaposition of Christianity and modern journalism is thought-provoking, but it is difficult to take the philosopher's ideological criticism of the media as a Christian phenomenon seriously.
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About postmodernism: Hollow as a Swiss cheese

Flame Forlag's new book shows that the worst aspects of postmodernism live well.
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The social psychology of money

Citizenship must again be able to act as moral models, Pascal Bruckner writes in this report from the French right.
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Michael Nast: The inexperienced generation

Michael Nast calls his own generation Y the "generation of cohabitation."
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The passion for the real

A tax-financed state and mass comfort based on fossil energy is the 20. the foremost hallmark of the century, according to Germany's great essayist Peter Sloterdijk. 
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"But then there's the bottom line again when all the other, non-aesthetic considerations come together: district politics, diversity, children and young people, who got ...

We all have an "instinctive" taste. Quality understanding. The concept of quality in contemporary art and culture makes us reflect on this.
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Impressions from Transilvania

Here we do not meet Dracula, but instead Norwegian romanticism and Saxon patriotism.
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