One hears a lot these days about a renaissance of religion, and much about religious fanatics, too. In his most recent essay, Gottes Eifer. Vom Kampf der drei Monotheismen (i.e. the zealous God: on the struggle of the three monotheisms), Peter Sloterdijk, a philosopher and cultural commentator, explores the questions about the sources of the strength of the belief in one God, and what effects it has on its adherents....
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Anyone who counts Danube Swabians, Slovenians and Italians among his forefathers and lives as a Bosnian Croat first in Sarajevo and then in Zagreb, is entitled to call his birth a political project. Miljenko Jergovic tells the story of his family, of people whose identities have more to do with what they are not, than what they are.
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Truly a novel of the century. With his "Die Zugereisten" (the newcomers), an autobiographical trilogy of reminiscence, Lojze Kovacic bequeathed a masterpiece to the Slovenians, as brilliant as it is bulky. By Wolfgang Schneider
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