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Habermas' new conversation book

PHILOSOPHY: Jürgen Habermas' growing interest in religion in this new conversation book can be interpreted as a symptom that the concept of rationality with which he initially operated was too narrow. Today, philosophy and religion, as well as psychology and a number of other sciences, are struggling to understand or redefine the incomprehensible in our lifeworld.
Eivind Tjønneland -

The citizen's 'autonomy' as a condition for political publicity

PUBLIC: The image of the public in the Enlightenment was an ideal image of enlightened citizens gathered in an audience that discussed – or 'deliberated' – to arrive at the best solution. But what happens when early hair loss, premature ejaculation and simulated disability become therapy texts for the endless frustration of living in one of the world's supposedly richest and best countries?
Eivind Tjønneland -

The end of the story – and the beginning

FREEDOM: 'University' was a code word for prison, completing the exam meant serving a prison sentence. Albania's transformation was thorny. On the altar of freedom, factories went bankrupt, jobs disappeared, thousands fled to Italy on overcrowded ships.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

The danger of modified nature

ECOLOGY:With technological measures in all directions, researchers are faced with sky-high challenges. One of them is human ignorance linked to indifference.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

The art of keeping the people down

THE AUTHORITY: Authoritarian leaders only follow the Constitution as long as they profit from it.
Lars Holm-Hansen -

Creativity, openness, style consciousness, entrepreneurial spirit, empathy and cosmopolitanism

MIDDLE CLASS: Current in these corona times is whether Reckwitz's analysis opens up a restructuring of the economy back to a "real economy" – from the cultural capitalism in which the goods promise consumers symbolic, narrative, aesthetic and ethical experiences.
Eivind Tjønneland -

The 68 generation according to German history writing

Three newly published books on the sixties provide some surprising and new perspectives. All are written by scientists who do not even belong to this mythical generation.
Eivind Tjønneland -

Peter the Great's abdication?

An award-winning provocateur – accused of being responsible for the atrocities of the Bosnia war – may have written his latest work.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

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? 
Eivind Tjønneland -

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