Dorthe Jørgensen

Dorthe Jørgensen currently offers talks and lectures on these topics and with these titles:

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• “Bønnens æstetik” (The Aesthetics of Prayer) 

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• “Den skønne tænkning” (Beautiful Thinking)

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• “Fantasiens filosofi” (The Philosophy of Imagination)

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• “Prædikenkunst” (The Art of Preaching)

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• “Kunsten at dø” (The Art of Dying)

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• “Nærvær og eftertanke” (Presence and Afterthought)

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• “Rummet og det hellige” (Spatiality and Sacrality)

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• “Transcendenserfaring” (The Experience of Transcendence)

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For further information, incl. information about availability and salary, please send an e-mail to professordorthejoergensen@gmail.com

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Dorthe Jørgensen has given 323 invited talks and guest lectures, primarily as keynote speaker, in

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• the philosophy of beauty; the metamorphosis of beauty; beautiful thinking; creativity and aesthetic thinking; aesthetic thinking as a common humanist concern

• pedagogy and learning; formation in education; knowledge and wisdom; the knowledge society, i.e., criticism of its ideologies (career and competence development at the expense of truth, meaning, and substance)

• history of ideas; history of aesthetic and religious ideas; ideahistoriography; history as a work; essay writing as an intellectual practice

• philosophy of experience; metaphysics of experience; experience of immanent transcendence; philosophy of science based on the metaphysics of experience, i.e., anchored in the aesthetic-sensitive presence of the human being 

• religious aesthetics, aesthetic theology, and theological aesthetics; the significance of aesthetics, phenomenology, and hermeneutics for theology; theological aesthetics based on the metaphysics of experience

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Examples of Previous Inviting Institutions

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Many academic and scientific societies (primarily international societies of philosophy, sociology, theology, literature, theatre studies, etc.). The Norwegian universities in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Bø, Larvik, and Stavanger, and various Norwegian cultural organizations. In Italy, the universities in Turin, Florence, and Pisa, and the Danish Institute in Rome. In Sweden, the universities in Stockholm, Lund, and Uppsala, as well as, Malmö Konsthal and Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsingborg. In Germany and England, the Free University Berlin and the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield. In Denmark, the universities in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Roskilde, Odense, Kolding, Aalborg, and Emdrup, as well as, many university colleges educating pedagogues, teachers, nurses, social workers, etc., and a lot of training courses for priests, many of which were organized by FUV (the education and knowledge center of the Danish Church). Furthermore, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Design School Kolding, Copenhagen School of Architecture, and Aarhus School of Architecture. Moreover, most Danish political parties, various museums of art, many churches and congregations in Denmark, many Danish folk high schools and high schools on art, as well as, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Borupgaard Gymnasium, Erhvervskvinder (an organization of businesswomen), Danish Artist Council, Danish Visual Artists, DM (trade union for humanists and psychologists), DJØF (trade union for lawyers and economists), and LO (the workers’ organization in both the private and public sector).

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Examples of Past Contributions

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• “Aesthetic Experience and Philosophy of Science”

• “Aesthetic Experience and Poietic Praxis”

• “Aesthetic Thinking”

• “Aesthetic Thinking as a Common Humanist Concern”

• “Aesthetics and Metaphysics”

• “Aesthetics and Religion in a Contemporary Key”

• “Approaching Theology through Art and Aesthetics”

• “Art and Metaphysical Experience”

• “Basic Experience and Beautiful Thinking”

• “Beautiful Thinking”

• “Beauty – An Angel Passed By”

• “Beauty and Sensitivity”

• “Beauty, Divinity, and Immanent Transcendence”

• “Beauty, Music, and Knowledge”

• “Call for a New Kind of Enlightenment”

• “Creativity and Aesthetic Thinking”

• “Essay Writing as an Intellectual Praxis”

• “Experience of Divinity in a Modern World”

• “Experience, Metaphysics, and Immanent Transcendence”

• “Faith and Beauty”

• “Felix Aestheticus and the Good Life”

• “The Question of Formation in Education”

• “History as a Work”

• “Homiletics and Sensitive Cognition”

• “How to Be a Beautiful Soul”

• “Knowledge and Wisdom”

• “Metaphysics of Experience”

• “Phenomenology and Essay Writing”

• “Philosophical Aesthetics – Metaphysics of Experience”

• “Philosophy of Sensation: Aesthetics, Phenomenology, and Metaphysics of Experience”

• “Pleasures of Insight: The Significance of Wisdom for the Good Life”

• “Political Sense and Sensibility”

• “Presence and Afterthought: My Pedagogical Laboratory”

• “Protestantism and Its Aesthetic Discontents”

• “Religion and Aesthetics”

• “Sensation, Faith and Comprehension”

• “Sensitive Cognition”

• “Technocracy and Demagogy in the Knowledge Society”

• “Technocracy vs. Thinking: On Knowledge and Wisdom in Politics”

• “The Call”

• “The Dialogue of Experience”

• “The Encounter with the Beautiful”

• “Experience and Thought”

• “The Experience of Beauty and the Aesthetic ‘More’”

• “The Experience of Immanent Transcendence”

• “The Good Life”

• “The Inexplicable”

• “The Intermediate World: A Key Concept in Beautiful Thinking”

• “The Meaning of Art”

• “The Metamorphosis of Beauty: History of Aesthetic Ideas”

• “The Romantico-Modern”

• “The Sublime and the Beautiful”

• “The Intellectual Way of Life”

• “Theological Aesthetics”

• “Thinking or Competence Development”

• “Truth and Beauty”

• “What is the Use of Aesthetics, Beauty, and Thought?”

• “World Poetry: On Aesthetics and Transcendence”

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