Book review: Insight into life via the whimsical method
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- 18 Aug 2022
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Thomas Hylland Eriksen has many good anecdotes to share, but the book lacks an overarching idea.
Self-help literature for those of us who think we are above self-help literature is a growing genre. The French author Emmanuel Carrère's book "Yoga" was recently published in Norwegian, a book which, among many other things, describes meditation in detail. In 2018, Erling Kagge made people go out of their way to buy "Gå".
In addition, we have received the ironic self-help books, such as Agnes Ravatn's successful "Operation self-discipline" (2014) and the Danish psychology professor Svend Brinkmann's "Resist - Say no to self-development" (2015). They have a meta-relationship with the genre, but at the same time help to expand it and come up with a number of good life insights. Read More…
