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Heidegger

Can the technology revolution bring us out of disability?

Peter Sloterdijk: The human greenhouse

ESSAY: Today, the extreme state is different than in the post-war period, when Sartre and Heidegger wrote about anxiety and authenticity. The existential threat today lies primarily in an uncertain planetary future.
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Ecology is playfully serious

Timothy Morton: All Art is Ecological

ECOLOGY: Penguins' newly launched green series presents old and new books that change the way we think and talk about the living earth. You are in the age of mass extinction, but the philosopher Martin Heidegger brings us here on the trail of what we need.
Alexander Carnera -

The warlike mindset

UKRAINE: What is it about our modern way of life that promotes such hostility and military-technological "solutions"?
Truls Lie -

Superficiality is the new dialogue

Kjetil Røed: Working Through the Past

CONCEPT ART: A concept-oriented micro-art historical work that re-evaluates the value of art
Marianne Solberg -

From naïve national socialism to a renewed ecological philosophy?

Hein Berdinesen, Lars Petter Storm Torjussen: Heidegger's wills. Philosophy, Nazism and Black Booklets Edited by Dreyers Forlag, Norway

: SETTLEMENT: When the existential anxiety today increases among people, Heidegger's philosophy can have some benefit. Is it therefore possible to read parts of him today without just focusing on his Nazi sympathies?
Sigurd Ohrem -

Realists Stanley Kubrick

: He is a filmmaker who has meant a lot to many of us. In a world that is being technically engineered and militarized, Kubrick is still relevant.
Truls Lie -

Vita hyperactive!

Byung-Chul Han: The Scent of Time

: When the belief in common narratives falls away, at the same time as the individual's life becomes more hectic, time itself loses direction and meaning, Byung-Chul Han believes.
Anders Dunk -

A story of our wasted time

Sarah Bakewell: Existentialisterna. A story of freedom, being and apricot cocktails

: The Existentialists stared at the emptiness in the white eye – and still tried to preserve their humanity. Göran Rosenberg reads a brilliant story about a bunch of philosophers who remain relevant even today.
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Aries and witness

Hans Hauge: Løgstrup, Heidegger and Nazism Biographies, discussions, memories, polemics and anecdotes Forlaget Multivers

: In his book on Heidegger and Nazism, Hans Hauge overlooks the massive Nazi concealment that prevailed in Post-War Germany. 
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