What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes it? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself?In Making Money, Ole Bjerg turns these questions into a matter of philosophical rather than economic analysis. Applying the thinking of Slavoj Zizek and other scholars to mainstream economic literature, Bjerg provides a radical new way of looking at the mysterious stuff we use to buy things. It is a theory unfolded in reflections on t...

Poker is an extraordinary worldwide phenomenon with major social, cultural, and political implications, and Poker: The Parody of Capitalism investigates the game of poker as a cultural expression of significance not unlike art, literature, film, or music. Tracing the history of poker and comparing the evolution of the game to the development of capitalism, Ole Bjerg complicates prevalent notions of “casino capitalism” and correspondingly facile and simplistic comparisons of late c...

What does it mean to be a man? While this is a key question for at least half the population of the world, Ole Bjerg argues that it has been largely forgotten by philosophy. In his groundbreaking new book, he mobilizes ideas from Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt to coin the notion of Being-Man as an alternative to the conventional talk about gender and identity. This leads into an exploration of love, sex, work, art, truth, fatherhood, women, and other existential issues confronting men ...

Parallax of Growth explores the ideas of economy and ecology and the factors that have put them on a collision course. Bjerg argues that our current mode of economic organization is characterized by an inherent �debt drive�, whereby the creation of money through the issuance of commercial bank credit has locked our economy into a vicious circle of forced growth and increasing debt.Parallax of Growth is not a catalogue of solutions to the ecological or the economic...

Over the course of the last ten years the issue of debt has become a serious problem that threatens to destroy the global socio-economic system and ruin the everyday lives of millions of people. This collection brings together a range of perspectives of key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of indebtedness.The contributors to the book consider both the lived experience of debt and the more abstrac...

47-årige William har egentlig opgivet håbet om at opleve noget stort i livet og så at sige at blive til noget. Men da hans mor dør, og den excentriske rigmand Oscar Meinert ud af det blå træder ind i Williams liv, ændrer alt sig.Meinert tilbyder at købe morens hus og vil endda sende William på en rejse til syden. Samtidig insisterer han på, at William skal lære hans datter Henni at kende – på trods af at hun allerede er gift. I løbet af ingen tid er Williams liv helt forandret, ude...

Max Webers status som samfundsvidenskabelig klassiker og varig inspirationskilde til forståelse af samfundsforhold, kultur, religion, historie mv. er uomtvistelig. Weber har i adskillige årtier været en af de mest læste og citerede forfattere i samfundsvidenskaberne overhovedet og anvendes i undervisning på mange trin over et bredt spektrum af uddannelser. Udvalgte tekster er et repræsentativt udsnit af Max Weber-tekster i dansk oversættelse, som ved at lette tilgangen til forfatt...

I nutiden er Max Weber nok mest kendt som en af sociologiens betydeligste klassikere, og med rette; men det er samtidig vigtigt at være opmærksom på, at hans indsats rakte langt ud over sociologiens grænser, og at det egentlig er misvisende at forsøge at rubricere ham under et bestemt fag. Der findes ikke én Weber, men mange, er det blevet sagt. Hans fagvidenskabelige arbejde rakte fra økonomisk historie og retshistorie over erhvervs- og socialpolitiske studier, til industriarbejdets psyko...

Afrikas grønne bjerge er Ernest Hemingways selvbiografiske rejsebeskrivelse fra en storvildtsjagt for foden af Kilimanjaro. En bog fuld af rå og upolerede drengebogsdrømme og en bog der med sit farverige persongalleri og maleriske Afrika-skildringer lader sig læse som en halvdokumentarisk roman."Afrikas grønne bjerge spiller en central og symbolsk rolle i forfatterskabet"- Bo Green Jensen Hemingway (1899-1961) var, og er, en af Amerikas betydeligste forfattere, der som jour...