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"Midt i sammenbruddet": bøger om universitet, forskning og videnskabSocial Kritik:Tidsskrift for Social Analyse and Debat 22 (122): 26--29. 2010.
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Durkheim: the goal of education in a democratic state is autonomyIn Peter Kemp & Asger Sørensen (eds.), Politics in Education, Lit Verlag. pp. 183--198. 2012.
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2I Lyset Af Bataille: Politisk Filosofiske StudierPolitisk Revy. 2012.Filosoffen og etikeren, lektor ved DPU, Asger Sørensen har samlet og nyskrevet artikler om den franske filosof, sociolog og forfatter Georges Bataille (10. september 1897 - 8. juli 1962), som vi udgiver i 50 året for hans død. En omfattende monografi med både filosofiske og sociologiske aspekter af den kontroversielle forfatter. Desuden en 2. del om forfatterens personlige møde med Batailles univers.
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706Den Moralske VirkelighedNsu Press. 2012.Den moralske virkelighed er en filosofisk undersøgelse af moral og etik i videst mulige forstand, der bunder i en frustration over oplevelser med den filosofiske etik. Den filosofiske etik skal vejlede os moralsk i vore handlinger, men det synes som om den hverken kan hjælpe os med det eller redegøre for moralen. Moral er et samfundsmæssigt fænomen, men det gør den filosofiske etik typisk ikke meget ud af. I en situation, hvor etikken er i krise, er det derfor værd at se på, hvad moralsociologie…Read more
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IntroductionIn Peter Kemp & Asger Sørensen (eds.), Politics in Education, Lit Verlag. pp. 9--20. 2012.
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Hegel: fremmedgørelse, sprog og frihesIn Ingerid S. Straume (ed.), Danningens Filosofihistorie, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. pp. 197--211. 2013.
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Forsvar universitetet og den akademiske dannelseMedicinerorganisationernes Kommunikationsorgan 46 (12): 7. 2013.
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Kritisk teoriIn Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Peter Nedergaard (eds.), Videnskabsteori I Statskundskab, Sociologi Og Forvaltning, Hans Reitzels Forlag. pp. 251--286. 2015.
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The role of dialectics in MarcuseIn Terry Maley (ed.), One-Dimensional Man 50 Years On, Fernwood Publishing. pp. 40-56. 2017.
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85In Capitalism, Alienation and Critique Asger Sørensen offers a wide-ranging argument for the classical Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, thus endorsing the dialectical approach of the original founders (Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse) and criticizing suggested revisions of later generations (Habermas, Honneth). Being situated within the horizon of the late 20th century Cultural Marxism, the main issue is the critique of capitalism, emphasizing experiences of injustice, ideology and alienatio…Read more
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14Bildung according to Habermas: Publicity, Discourse and PoliticsIxtli 2 (3): 109-127. 2015.The argument is that Bildung has occupied Habermas from the earliest writings. In these writings he criticizes the idea of being educated as an expression of innate abilities and emphasizes instead the significance of the social conditions of the upbringing. This is the subject of the first section. The second section provides a presentation of the ideology-critical analysis of Bildung found in Habermas’s doctoral thesis on The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. The basic critique i…Read more
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41Value, business and globalisation – sketching a critical conceptual frameworkJournal of Business Ethics 39 (1-2). 2002.Value is a basic concept in economics, ethics and sociology. Locke made labour the source of value, whereas Smith referred to an ideal exchange and Kant specified that commodities only have a market price, no intrinsic value. One can distinguish two modern concepts of value, an economic one trying to explain value in terms of utility, interest or preferences, and an ideal one considering values as ends in themselves. On this basis, Durkheim constructed his theory of value, which was developed by…Read more
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513The inner experience of living matter: Bataille and dialecticsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (5): 597-615. 2007.The dialectical aspect in the work of Georges Bataille is often neglected. At the suggestion of Foucault and Derrida, Bataille is most often even taken to be a non-dialectical thinker. But Bataille worked intensely with Hegel's ideas, his thought was expressed in Hegelian terms, and both his epistemology and his ontology can be considered a determinate negation of Hegel's position in the Phenomenology. This is shown, first, by analysing Bataille's notions of `inner experience', and, second, by s…Read more
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151Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault , Human Nature: Justice vs Power. The Chomsky-Foucault Debate , edited by Fons Elders (London: Souvenir Press, 2011), ISBN: 978-1-595-58134-1 (review)Foucault Studies 16 201-207. 2013.
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11Om Videnskabelig Viden: Gier, Ikker Og IsmerSamfundslitteratur. 2010.Videnskabsteori handler om krav til videnskabelig viden, og disse krav hviler på forudsætninger, der kan ekspliciteres yderligere. Specielt i dag er der dog brug for en bog, der ikke blot analyserer den klassiske videnskabsteori, men i samme diskurs også forholder sig til de meget forskellige tankegange, der i dag giver sig ud for at være videnskabsteori. Om videnskabelig viden til dem, der ønsker et bedre videnskabsteoretisk overblik, og til dem som ønsker at gå mere i dybden med den egentlige …Read more
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20Introducting Theme ArticlesDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 50 7-45. 2017.Introducing articles on Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace, various interpretative questions are discussed. Externally, alleged senility is contrasted with political maturity, just as irony and rhetorics are discussed in relation to (self-)censorship and the French Revolution. Internally, Kant scholars have discussed, e.g. the use of ‘eternal’ vs. ‘perpetual’, the question of preventive war, and, more in general, the relation between Kant’s political writings. In relation to the three definitive arti…Read more
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16Politics in Education (edited book)LIT Verlag. 2012.There is no education, which can avoid being political. Still, the question is in which sense education is political, and if all education must be politics, or, if not, to what extent politics must be made the explicit telos of the formation and upbringing, and how the relation might be between the principles needed for education and those of the political sphere. Today, after the successive collapses of the modern models of the good society, first realised socialism and then neo-liberal market …Read more
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40G. E. Moore’s ethics: good as intrinsic value (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 5 (1): 155-158. 2008.
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27Montevideo: ALFE 2, Puchet og Genis. Pædagogisk filosofi 1 (review)Studier i Pædagogisk Filosofi 3 (1): 96-99. 2014.
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29From critique of ideology to politics: Habermas on BildungEthics and Education 10 (2): 252-270. 2015.Considering the German idea of Bildung, I argue that it is a central concern of Habermas. First, he criticized the idea of being educated as a sign of innate abilities, emphasizing instead the significance of the social conditions of the upbringing. Subsequently, inspired by Adorno, he performed an analysis of Bildung, based on critique of ideology, in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. The basic critique is that Bildung is too tightly connected to societal dominance, but still …Read more
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107Deontology: born and kept in servitude by utilitarianismDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 43 (1): 69-95. 2008.The distinction between teleology and deontology is today almost universally accepted within practical philosophy, but deontology is and has from the beginning been subordinate to utili-tarianism. ‘Deontology’ was constructed by Bentham to signify the art and science of private morality within a utilitarian worldview. The classical distinction was constructed by Broad as a refinement of Sidgwick’s utilitarianism, and then adopted by Frankena. To Broad it signified two opposite tendencies in ethi…Read more
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