Bøger af Simon May

The essays in this book derive from the Engelsberg Seminar of 2014, and investigate the role which religion plays in society today and in the past. They also explore religion as a phenomenon in relation to the human condition and how it manifests itself as an individual experience. In order to understand ourselves, do we need to understand religion?

A powerfully moving family memoir of loss, exile and self-concealment in Nazi Germany.

Love - unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting - is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. The author does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage.

A critique of Nietzsche's attack on morality, and of his controversial ethics of "life-enhancement". Simon May is critical of various aspects of Nietzsche's thought, but acknowledges that it provides moral philosophy with tools for reassessing some of its most cherished values and concepts.