PHILOSOPHY: Pure nihilism? If one is to write a book about Zapffe, one should come to grips with his nihilism. Dag O. Hessen has chosen here to depict the philosopher's life as rich, despite the dark undertones.
THE STORY: What, for example, could the end of slavery mean for our dependence on fossil fuels? What can historical examples of successful coexistence between different ethnic groups, or the rise of the art of printing, tell us today?
JOURNAL: Are journals as part of the literary public at risk of being erased? The probing criticism, the one that dares to be independent literature, dares to be self-referential, introspective and self-implicating.
ECOLOGY: Ove Jacobsen has created an overview of 55 different green thinkers. In the book we can read that we must move from an anthropocentric to an ecocentric perspective – so that solidarity, cooperation and compassion include all forms of life.
PHILOSOPHY: Wolfram Eilenberger describes here the struggle four philosophers – Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil fought to become independent people. The book succeeds well in putting them in context with the current events they got involved in and at the same time tried to get out of.
CAPITALISM: 'Techno-feudalism' is a global expansion with an all-consuming, limitless development of non-material phenomena. Here, social democracy can no longer make any difference, according to Yanis Varoufakis in this book.