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An absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in
Knausgaard's writings and our time. Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a
six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most
significant literary works of the young twenty-first century.
Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the novel presents an
absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a writer with the
same name as the author, in a world at once fully disillusioned and
thoroughly enchanted. In 2015, a group of scholars began meeting to
discuss the peculiarly religious qualities of My Struggle. Some
were interested in Knausgaard's attention to explicitly religious
subjects and artworks, others to what they saw as more diffuse
attention to the religiousness of contemporary life. The group
wondered what reading these textures of religion in these volumes
might say about our times, about writing, and about themselves. The
Abyss or Life Is Simple is the culmination of this collective
endeavor-a collection of interlocking essays on ritual, beauty, and
the end of the world.
This book offers the policy-maker or decision-maker key insights
and practical information regarding the features of ethics
frameworks best suited to the ethical assessment of human cognitive
enhancement (HCE) applications, such as pharmaceutical cognitive
enhancers and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques. This book
takes as its departure point the entrenched philosophical debate
between opponents and proponents of HCE and the increased
feasibility of some applications of HCE. Recent calls for
policy-making in the area of human enhancement reflect the need to
find a balance between addressing current ethical issues and issues
that are more speculative in nature or are underpinned by abstract
philosophical concepts. Practical ethical approaches for policy or
decision-making should enable the development of an evidence base
for the risks and benefits of HCE applications. Moreover, such
practical approaches should also incorporate a broader range of
value bases that would facilitate convergence regarding certain
decisions and judgements. This book identifies and evaluate tools
that help us to go beyond polarised philosophical debates in order
to assist practical decision makers in concrete ethical
deliberation and decision-making. The focus is on systematic
methods with which to identify relevant ethical values and assess
the impacts of an HCE application on those values in order to
facilitate decision-making regarding the ethical acceptability or
desirability of the application.
An absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in
Knausgaard's writings and our time. Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a
six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most
significant literary works of the young twenty-first century.
Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the novel presents an
absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a writer with the
same name as the author, in a world at once fully disillusioned and
thoroughly enchanted. In 2015, a group of scholars began meeting to
discuss the peculiarly religious qualities of My Struggle. Some
were interested in Knausgaard's attention to explicitly religious
subjects and artworks, others to what they saw as more diffuse
attention to the religiousness of contemporary life. The group
wondered what reading these textures of religion in these volumes
might say about our times, about writing, and about themselves. The
Abyss or Life Is Simple is the culmination of this collective
endeavor-a collection of interlocking essays on ritual, beauty, and
the end of the world.
This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures
related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus
with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical
framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking
individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the
question how history can and should be taught. It also offers some
examples of good practice in this field. The book promotes a
teaching practice which, in taking the social constructivist
notions of historical consciousness as a starting point, can
contribute to self-reflecting and critical thinking - being
fundamental for any democratic political culture.
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