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What does it mean to be a man? While this is a key question for at least half the popula-tion 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 Ar-endt 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, father-hood, women, and other existential issues confronting men in our efforts to make sense of ourselves and our lives today.The Meaning of Being a Man may be read by anyone, but it is explicitly written for men who are discontented with contemporary academic debates about men and women and yet still believe that philosophy has something valuable to say on these matters.Ole Bjerg (b. 1974) is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and Economics at the Copenhagen Business School. A list of previous books in English include Parallax of Growth (Polity Press 2016), Making Money (Verso 2014) and Poker: The Parody of Capitalism (University of Michigan Press 2011).

Karen Blixens råd til os er dobbelt interessant: Vi må kunne elske – og have humoristisk sans!Blixen er en stor humorist – også i forhold til Søren Kierkegaards bestemmelse af "den humoristiske livsanskuelse". Med Jørgen Gustava Brandts ord er Blixen "meget gammeldags, fuldstændig up to date og langt forud for sin egen tid".Og Blixen fremhæver det med humoren selv: "Jeg indfører ofte med vilje en humoristisk tone. Jeg holder af en spøg, jeg elsker humor. Navnet 'Isak' betyder 'den, der ler'. Jeg tænker tit på, at det, vi mest af alt har brug for netop nu, er en stor humorist ... Alle de forfattere, jeg beundrer, har i reglen humoristisk sans."Ivan Z. Sørensen er forfatter til bogen om Blixens humor. Han har bl.a. været udsendt som dansk lektor i Firenze og derefter museumsinspektør på Karen Blixen Museet. Han har skrevet en række bøger, især om Blixen og Kierkegaard, og han underviser jævnligt på Karen Blixen Museets sommerkurser.