Toril Moi
@torilmoi.bsky.social
Teaches at Duke University, sometimes works for Norway's National Library, writes for various magazines.
Robert Redford died this week. He marked my youth! All the tributes are so well deserved. But why do so many of them fail to mention his great political movie, The Candidate (1972), where he plays an idealist running for Senate, who almost unwittingly ends up selling out.
September 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Robert Redford died this week. He marked my youth! All the tributes are so well deserved. But why do so many of them fail to mention his great political movie, The Candidate (1972), where he plays an idealist running for Senate, who almost unwittingly ends up selling out.
Jeg skriver om Hannah Arendts relevanse i @morgenbladet.no i dag. Hennes analyser av totalitarismens framvekst, sannhetens vilkår i politikken, og politisk frihet er imponerende. Hun hadde en utrolig evne til å gripe det filosofisk og politisk relevante i konkrete hendelser!
September 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Jeg skriver om Hannah Arendts relevanse i @morgenbladet.no i dag. Hennes analyser av totalitarismens framvekst, sannhetens vilkår i politikken, og politisk frihet er imponerende. Hun hadde en utrolig evne til å gripe det filosofisk og politisk relevante i konkrete hendelser!
Jeg skriver om nærlesningens begrensinger i mitt svar til Ulrik Eriksen i Morgenbladet i dag. Er ikke veldig glad i dettte bildet, men slik er livet . www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/toril-...
(+) Lett å kritisere en bok for det den ikke gjør
Ulrik Eriksen mener at jeg ikke kan analysere film. Hvorfor? Fordi jeg er litteraturviter.
www.morgenbladet.no
July 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Jeg skriver om nærlesningens begrensinger i mitt svar til Ulrik Eriksen i Morgenbladet i dag. Er ikke veldig glad i dettte bildet, men slik er livet . www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/toril-...
#VigdisHjorth og jeg snakket med Ane Farsethås om liv, litteratur og filosofi på #Litteraturhuset i Oslo den 11. juni. Nå foreligger samtalen som podkast. Hør den her: shows.acast.com/litteraturhu...
Filosofien i det levde liv: Toril Moi og Vigdis Hjorth | Litteraturhusets podkast
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June 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
#VigdisHjorth og jeg snakket med Ane Farsethås om liv, litteratur og filosofi på #Litteraturhuset i Oslo den 11. juni. Nå foreligger samtalen som podkast. Hør den her: shows.acast.com/litteraturhu...
Det ble en livlig prat med Vegard Larsen på NRKs #Drivkraft ! radio.nrk.no/podkast/driv...
Toril Moi - Drivkraft - NRK Radio
– Jeg var frykelig slem med min mor, sier professoren. Nå ser hun at hennes feminist-forakt for husmorrollen var ufortjent.
radio.nrk.no
June 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Det ble en livlig prat med Vegard Larsen på NRKs #Drivkraft ! radio.nrk.no/podkast/driv...
I am glad to see this quote from Hannah Arendt in many places these days. Worth thinking about!
June 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I am glad to see this quote from Hannah Arendt in many places these days. Worth thinking about!
Åste Dokka laget en finpodkast med meg denne uken. Hør den her: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Toril Moi: Et tiår for misogyni og helvetesdebatt
Podcast Episode · Dokka · 06/13/2025 · 1h
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June 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Åste Dokka laget en finpodkast med meg denne uken. Hør den her: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Kjempefin anmeldelse av På jakt etter Norge av Martha Norheim i @Morgenbladet.no. Jeg ble så glad! www.morgenbladet.no/boker/overra...
(+) Då Toril Moi fekk tilbod om å forske på kva ho ville, valte ho 1950-talet
Moi koplar saman slikt ho finn og får ein halvgløymt epoke til å bli både eksotisk og nærverande.
www.morgenbladet.no
June 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Kjempefin anmeldelse av På jakt etter Norge av Martha Norheim i @Morgenbladet.no. Jeg ble så glad! www.morgenbladet.no/boker/overra...
I morgen onsdag på Litteraturhuset i Oslo! Ane Farsethås samtaler med Vigdis Hjorth og meg. Om filosofi og det hverdagslige. Og min bok På jakt etter Norge, og Anes samtalebiografi om meg.
www.litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangeme...
www.litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangeme...
Filosofien i det levde liv: Toril Moi og Vigdis Hjorth
I samtale med Ane Farsethås om hverdagsliv, eksistens, og litteraturens plass i turbulente tider.
www.litteraturhuset.no
June 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I morgen onsdag på Litteraturhuset i Oslo! Ane Farsethås samtaler med Vigdis Hjorth og meg. Om filosofi og det hverdagslige. Og min bok På jakt etter Norge, og Anes samtalebiografi om meg.
www.litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangeme...
www.litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangeme...
Det er i dag! Lansering av min bok På jakt etter Norge, og Ane Farsethås' samtalebiografi med meg. I samtale med Wenche Mühleisen. På Gyldendal klokken 18 i dag!
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www.facebook.com/events/12085...
Lansering og samtale med Toril Moi, Wenche Mühleisen og Ane Farsethås
Event in Oslo, Norway by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag on Tuesday, June 10 2025 with 302 people interested and 44 people going.
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June 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Det er i dag! Lansering av min bok På jakt etter Norge, og Ane Farsethås' samtalebiografi med meg. I samtale med Wenche Mühleisen. På Gyldendal klokken 18 i dag!
www.facebook.com/events/12085...
www.facebook.com/events/12085...
My friend and colleague Sarah Beckwith's
stunning, moving, thoughtful reflections on how she was raped at knifepoint in London forty years ago is now out in
@newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
stunning, moving, thoughtful reflections on how she was raped at knifepoint in London forty years ago is now out in
@newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Returning to the Scene of My Brutal Rape
By the canal, I felt an overwhelming and visceral sense that I had stumbled upon the place where a man had raped me at knifepoint forty years earlier.
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May 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
My friend and colleague Sarah Beckwith's
stunning, moving, thoughtful reflections on how she was raped at knifepoint in London forty years ago is now out in
@newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
stunning, moving, thoughtful reflections on how she was raped at knifepoint in London forty years ago is now out in
@newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
My short essay on why Simone de #Beauvoir's 1954 novel The Mandarins is more relevant than ever has been published online - in Slovenian! sociolosko-drustvo.si/med-vrsticami/
May 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My short essay on why Simone de #Beauvoir's 1954 novel The Mandarins is more relevant than ever has been published online - in Slovenian! sociolosko-drustvo.si/med-vrsticami/
We're launching På jakt etter Norge [Searching for Norway], my book on the Norwegian 1950s in Oslo, at Gyldendal, on June 10, at 6 p.m. Alongside Ane Farsethås' book about me. Here's the gorgeous cover of my book, based on Nikolai Astrup's paintings.
May 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We're launching På jakt etter Norge [Searching for Norway], my book on the Norwegian 1950s in Oslo, at Gyldendal, on June 10, at 6 p.m. Alongside Ane Farsethås' book about me. Here's the gorgeous cover of my book, based on Nikolai Astrup's paintings.
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It is our constitution day today, and celebrating Norway’s beauty this May 17th — with this beautiful Norwegian waterfall!🇳🇴 #nature #waterfall
May 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It is our constitution day today, and celebrating Norway’s beauty this May 17th — with this beautiful Norwegian waterfall!🇳🇴 #nature #waterfall
Wittgenstein’s birthday yesterday. The one philosopher I wish everyone in the humanities would try to understand. Philosophical Investigations changed my intellectual world.
April 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Wittgenstein’s birthday yesterday. The one philosopher I wish everyone in the humanities would try to understand. Philosophical Investigations changed my intellectual world.
Remembering Fred #Jameson. Duke's Literature Program has now put up the video of the memorial gathering it hosted for Fred Jameson. Feel free to share the link: literature.duke.edu/news/literat...
Literature Hosts Memorial Service to Honor Fredric Jameson (1934-2024)
Fredric Jameson, a cultural theorist and literary critic who influenced generations of scholars and helped raise the international profile of Duke's Literature program, died on September 22. Two month...
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March 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Remembering Fred #Jameson. Duke's Literature Program has now put up the video of the memorial gathering it hosted for Fred Jameson. Feel free to share the link: literature.duke.edu/news/literat...
Dag Solstad er død. En stor forfatter; et stort tap for norsk litteratur.
Tusen takk for makelaust framifrå bidrag til romankunsten og den norske skriftkulturen, Dag Solstad. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/LMgq...
Dag Solstad er død
Solstad ble 83 år gammel.
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March 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Dag Solstad er død. En stor forfatter; et stort tap for norsk litteratur.
Nasjonalbibliotekets Hedda Gabler seanse går av stabelen i morgen torsdag klokken 13. Seminaret strømmes også live: www.nb.no/tv/litteraer...
Litterært laboratorium: Ibsens samtidsdramaer 1877–1899. Hedda Gabler
Nasjonalbiblioteket varmer opp til Ibsenåret 2028 og inviterer til åpent estetisk analyseverksted, hvor vi leter fram sentrale passasjer fra Henrik Ibsens samtidsdramaer og diskuterer hva det var med ...
www.nb.no
March 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Nasjonalbibliotekets Hedda Gabler seanse går av stabelen i morgen torsdag klokken 13. Seminaret strømmes også live: www.nb.no/tv/litteraer...
I will be in Oslo next week! Contributing to a session on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the National Library - Thursday 13 March at 13:00. www.nb.no/hva-skjer/li...
Litterært laboratorium: Ibsens samtidsdramaer 1877–1899. Hedda Gabler
www.nb.no
March 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I will be in Oslo next week! Contributing to a session on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the National Library - Thursday 13 March at 13:00. www.nb.no/hva-skjer/li...
My friend Robin Walz has launched a great blog on French Popular Crime! Check it out on shadydetectives.com
Shady Detectives, Elegant Criminals & Dark Avengers
A Blog about French Popular Crime Writing
shadydetectives.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My friend Robin Walz has launched a great blog on French Popular Crime! Check it out on shadydetectives.com
Siss Vik @sissvik.bsky.social skriver om litterære vandringer i Bergen! www.nrk.no/bokbrevet/bo...
Bokbrevet # 47 I Karl Ove Knausgårds og Jon Fosses fotspor i Bergen
Jeg har gått i Karl Ove Knausgårds fotspor i Bergen.
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February 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Siss Vik @sissvik.bsky.social skriver om litterære vandringer i Bergen! www.nrk.no/bokbrevet/bo...
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Beyond Jon Fosse: Brilliant LRB essay by @torilmoi.bsky.social on the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s fourth novel in English. Read Moi; read Hjorth’s (Kierkegaardian) «If Only.» And don’t judge a book by its cover –
#books #philsky
#books #philsky
February 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Beyond Jon Fosse: Brilliant LRB essay by @torilmoi.bsky.social on the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s fourth novel in English. Read Moi; read Hjorth’s (Kierkegaardian) «If Only.» And don’t judge a book by its cover –
#books #philsky
#books #philsky
These lines in Nietzsche struck me this morning:
"It is possible to conceive of a society blessed with so great a consciousness of its own power as to indulge in the most aristocratic luxury of letting malefactors act with impunity. [. . .]
"It is possible to conceive of a society blessed with so great a consciousness of its own power as to indulge in the most aristocratic luxury of letting malefactors act with impunity. [. . .]
February 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
These lines in Nietzsche struck me this morning:
"It is possible to conceive of a society blessed with so great a consciousness of its own power as to indulge in the most aristocratic luxury of letting malefactors act with impunity. [. . .]
"It is possible to conceive of a society blessed with so great a consciousness of its own power as to indulge in the most aristocratic luxury of letting malefactors act with impunity. [. . .]
Reposted by Toril Moi
On the podcast, @torilmoi.bsky.social joins Malin Hay to discuss the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth, master of the collapsing relationship. What does her early reputation as an ‘erotic’ novelist get wrong about her work? Listen wherever you get podcasts, or here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Toril Moi and Malin Hay · On Vigdis Hjorth
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February 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
On the podcast, @torilmoi.bsky.social joins Malin Hay to discuss the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth, master of the collapsing relationship. What does her early reputation as an ‘erotic’ novelist get wrong about her work? Listen wherever you get podcasts, or here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Reposted by Toril Moi
I loved @torilmoi.bsky.social on “women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around” — Hjorth is new to me (and so great)
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
February 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I loved @torilmoi.bsky.social on “women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around” — Hjorth is new to me (and so great)
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...