Gisle Selnes

is professor in comparative literature at the University of Bergen. He has written extensively on critical theory and Norwegian and Latin-American literature. He has published one collection of essays, Det fjerde kontinentet (The Fourth Continent, 2010), is a regular contributor to Vagant and heads up the research group Radical Philosophy and Literature at the University of Bergen.

Articles

Fanatical counter-histories

A conversation with Alberto Toscano

The philosopher Alberto Toscano visited Bergen on 29 November 2014 to participate in the seminar “Fanaticism, Extremism, Radicalism”, organized by the research group Radical Philosophy and Literature at the University of Bergen. Toscano also took part in an event at the Literature House in Bergen, where he was interviewed by Gisle Selnes, professor in Comparative Literature at UiB. This interview is an edited version of their conversation and was first printed as part of a dossier on fanaticism in the Norwegian magazine Vagant’s first issue of 2015.