Philosophy

This study argues that we cannot reasonably keep on speaking as though there is only one conception of human rights. The consensus around certain core rights, though important, hides the fact that very different moral sensibilities are at work. The …

Today work, leisure, love, health, holidays, schooling and self-development seem to be flowing together in one big, chaotic mess. But in this book, the philosopher Anders Fogh Jensen explains that this mess has its own order: the project. We are …

N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) produced a major body of work in the fields of theology, education, literature, politics, and history. He was also a poet, a hymn-writer, and a translator. In particular, however, it is his educational writings that over the …

Learning from the Other is the first comprehensive attempt at developing intercultural metalogues; i.e. dialogues talking about how best to talk about intercultural problems. The book fills a remarkably empty spot in Nordic literature and philosophy on intercultural dialogue. In …

Depoliticization: The Political Imaginary of Global Capitalism follows in the path blazed by Hannah Arendt and Cornelius Castoriadis, where politics is seen as a mode of freedom; the possibility for individuals to consciously and explicitly create the institutions of their …

Europeans - or "Westerners" - have long been inclined to think that their form of socio-political organisation, often referred to as 'modern', is superior to others in both normative and functional terms. In both political philosophy and comperative-historical sociology, however, …

As an emerging field within the Nordic countries, the 'intersection' between art and research is still in the process of being named and renamed. Practice-Based Research within the Performing Arts was the concept that framed the investigation of the field …

The war on terror, the globalization of politics and the emergence of international law have shaped our recent history and brought about new questions and challenges for politicans as well as for the sciences concerned with understanding the dynamics at …

Modern life is speeding-up, incessantly. Strange as it is, while the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels like we are running out of time. In all …

The occasional essays which form the present volume document the author's sense that what he initially thought of as separate intellectual and existential compartments in his life, in which his professional philosophical and literary concerns bore little relation to his …

In three chapters, Tong Shijun takes us through universalism, overlapping consensus and confucianism. Theoretical Dialogues in Practice argues, in chapter 1, that the key to avoid West-centrist universalism while upholding universalism is to make a distinction between essentialist universalism and …

Hegel's influence on post-Hegelian philosophy is as profound as it is ambiguous. Modern philosophy is philosophy after Hegel. Taking leave of Hegel's system appears to be a common feature of modern and post-modern thought. One could even argue that giving …

Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son on God's command. This willingness symbolizes the violent potential of authoritarian religion and it can be seen today in suicide bombings and terror actions. The contemporary resurgence of radically conservative and fundamentalist religion …

Thema der vorliegenden Abhandlung sind die religionsphilosophischen Konsequenzen der Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns von Jürgen Habermas. Obwohl Habermas seine sprachpragmatische Rationalitäts- und Modernitätstheorie als nachmetaphysisches Denken versteht, ist es bemerkenswert, dass ein Begriff von Unbedingtheit noch eine zentrale Rolle in …

The Nordic Summer University is committed to new developments in academic thought and practice. In this inaugural volume of Summertalk, NSU is proud to present the 2006 keynote lectures in print. The book offers a condensed tour de force through …

This volume provides an invaluable overview of Walter Benjamin's writings about technology, history, politics and the visual. From a variety of theoretical viewpoints, twelve brilliant scholars have come together to map the aura - perhaps the most elusive concept in …

Downward causation is found in two-level and multi-level systems with complex behavior generated by many components interacting in a simple or complex way. The term was coined by the social psychologist and philosopher Donald T. Campbell, who asked the question: …

This collection of papers is highly unusual in presenting views on both objective science and religious belief systems, and provides a thorough grounding in both disciplines and how they relate to one another.

'... there is something here to interest most Platonic scholars ... The collection opens with a fine paper by Lesley Brown on totalitarianism, already on my undergraduate reading list ... the volume ends with a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion by …