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DORTHE JØRGENSEN'S FIELDS AND DISCIPLINES

History of Ideas

The history of aesthetic ideas; the history of religious ideas; the history of philosophical ideas; the history of social ideas; the history of educational ideas; the history of political ideas.

The philosophy of history and idea-historiography; the method of the history of ideas; the history of the history of ideas, also as a tradition in Danish research; the relation between philosophy and the history of ideas.

The importance for society of the philosophical and idea-historical way of thinking (its importance for various cultural fields and for the understanding of culture and society as totalities), as well as the importance of Danish as research language.

Theology

Systematic theology (philosophy of religion; the relation between philosophy and theology; theological aesthetics and aesthetic theology; poetic theology, narrative theology and the theology of experience; the importance for theology of sensate experience, imagination, and beautiful thinking; the relevance and actuality of theological thought).

Practical theology (aesthetics of religion, including the relation between art and Christianity; the practical-theological [e.g., ethical and homilethical] implications of aesthetics, phenomenology, and the metaphysics of experience; prayer, faith, thinking, and aesthetic-sensitive formation; sermon writing as an art and the relevance of philosophical and literary essay writing).

Philosophy

Theoretical philosophy (metaphysics, the critique of metaphysics, metaphysics of experience; modern and ancient epistemology and theory of experience, including philosophical aesthetics and the ethical implications of aesthetics, phenomenology, and the metaphysics of experience; philosophy of beauty, including the sublime, the ugly, etc.; theories of sense, imagination and thinking, including knowledge/wisdom and beautiful thinking – from the antiquity to our day).

Philosophy of culture (the philosophy of history; theories about art, literature, music, etc.; philosophical pedagogy, philosophy of formation (Bildung), and social philosophy; philosophy of science, including aesthetics of science; theories of philosophical presentation (Darstellung), including the philosophy of the essay as form; the practical-political implications of aesthetics, phenomenology, and the metaphysics of experience).

History of philosophy (classical German philosophy [Baumgarten, Kant, Hegel, Schlegel, idealism, early romanticism]; phenomenology and hermeneutics [Heidegger, Gadamer, Vattimo, Chrétien]; critical theory [Benjamin, Adorno, Habermas]; theories of art and beauty from the antiquity to our day; ancient as well as modern theories of [the relation between] idea and phenomenon).

ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE NETWORK

International

University departments in- and outside Europe, e.g.,

  • Turin (Philosophy, University of Turin)

  • Stockholm (Theatre Studies, Stockholm University)

  • Barcelona (Vattimo’s Philosophy and Archives, UPF)

  • Toronto (History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto)

  • Malaga (Philosophy, University of Malaga)

  • Lund (Research Node for Aesthetic Studies, Lund University)

  • Hatfield (School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire)

  • Oslo (Theology, University of Oslo)

  • Seville (Philosophy, University of Seville)

  • Trondheim (Architecture and Design, NTNU)

Research units, networks, and societies such as

 

  • Seminar of the Three Cultures (Jewish, Christian, Muslim; global network of Andalusian origin)

  • Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion

  • “Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Teaching” (Stavanger)

  • “Sensoriness and Transcendence: The Sacred and the Sublime in a Religio-aesthetical Perspective” (Oslo)

  • “Performing the Sacred: A Transcultural Exploration of the Sacred as Aesthetic Practice”/later “Network for Aesthetics, Theology, and Natural Science” (Oslo)

  • “The Reformation Network” (Aarhus)

  • "Meaning-Making Bodies in Culture and Nature” (Stockholm)

  • Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion

  • Seminar of the Three Cultures

  • International Ambiances Network

Research councils such as

  • Agence National Recherche (Paris)

  • Canada Council for the Arts (Ottawa)

  • Knowledge Foundation (Stockholm)

  • Research Council of Norway (Oslo)

Journals and publishers such as

  • Open Philosophy (de Gruyter Online)

  • Oxford University Press

  • Raphisa (Thémata, Seville)

  • Routledge

  • Brill Publishers

  • Philosophy Today (DePaul University)

National

Danish university departments, colleges, etc., e.g.,

  • Centre for Pastoral Education and Research in Løgumkloster, Aarhus, and Copenhagen

  • Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen

  • The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copen- hagen

  • VIA University College Aarhus (pedagogy, teaching, and learning)

  • Design School Kolding 

  • Literature, University of Southern Denmark 

  • University College of Northern Denmark (educa-tional research)

Visual artists, writers, etc., including,

Peter Brandes, Kirstine Roepstorff, Marianne Grønnow, Peter Brandes, Elle-Mie Ejdrup Hansen, Anja Bache, Josefine Klougart, Martha Kramær, Siri Kollandsrud, Toni Larsen, Jo Møller, Elise Schonhowd (N), Amalie Smith, Bettina Winkelmann

Countless priests, churches, teachers, folk high schools, journalists, popular and professional associations, etc.

Academic societies such as

  • Danish Philosophical Association

  • The Learned Society of Aarhus

  • Nordic Association of Romantic Studies

  • Network for Existential Phenomenology

Think tanks such as

  • Sophia - Think Tank for Pegagogy and Formation

  • The Existence - Think Tank for Ethics and Theology

Publishing houses such as

  • Wunderbuch

  • Aarhus University Press

  • Eksistensen

  • Gladiator

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