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4The Necessity of Over-interpretation: Adorno, the Essay, and the Gesture of Aesthetic ExperienceEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 50 (2): 149. 2020.
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44Introduction to Special Issue : Adorno and the AnthropoceneAdorno Studies 3 (1). 2019.In this article, I argue that Adorno’s conception of a possible reconciliation with nature is neither one of complete synthesis, nor absolute alienation. The most elaborated formulations regarding the possibility of such a reconciliation, which would be tantamount to a liberated nature, are to be found in Adorno’s aesthetics, and particularly in his discussion of the art–nature relation. The article engages Simon Hailwood’s recent criticism of the concept of the Anthropocene and his discussion o…Read more
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8The Concept of the Anthropocene and the Jargon of AuthenticityAdorno Studies 3 (1): 33-46. 2019.In The Jargon of Authenticity Adorno criticizes the jargon he argues is to be found amongst followers of Heidegger. He describes it as displaying a fetishizing of understanding as belonging, and as a ground for authenticity, meaning and identity. This article develops the idea that Adorno’s critique also allows us to understand certain aspects of contemporary discussions concerning phenomena such as global warming and the Anthropocene. A common reaction to these phenomena is that we have to make…Read more
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22Why Art? : The Anthropocene, Ecocriticism, and Adorno’s Concept of Natural BeautyAdorno Studies 3 (1): 64-79. 2019.The article confronts contemporary ecocriticism with Adorno’s concept of natural beauty. If ecocriticism may be understood as a reaction to climate change – the gravity of the situation turns the academic into an activist – a fundamental question often remains unanswered: why should we turn to art if we are facing ecological disaster? The article then presents Adorno’s answer to this question, an answer that is closely tied to his theory of natural beauty. A crucial point in Adorno’s discussion …Read more
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17Uncontrol on Ruben östlund’s force majeureNordic Journal of Aesthetics 27 (55-56): 149-164. 2018.Ruben Östlund’s film Force Majeure was mostly received as a depiction of the crisis of masculinity. And it is, but that particular theme is also placed within a larger context concerning questions of value, understanding, order, and control, questions asked not only on a thematic level but also through cutting, framing, and the use of camera views. Not accepting any simple dichotomy between form and meaning, Force Majeure places itself firmly in an avant- garde and modernist tradition. Thereby …Read more
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21Underpaid and Corrupt Executives in China’s State SectorJournal of Business Ethics 150 (4): 1199-1212. 2018.This study examines the role of executive compensation in public governance. We collect data on corruption cases that involve top-level executives in Chinese listed state-controlled firms. We find a significant positive relationship between underpayment of executives and the likelihood of an investigation into corrupt behavior. We also show that corruption is positively associated with firm performance and that the relationship between underpayment of executives and corruption is influenced by f…Read more
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26Moral sensitivity: Some differences among nurses and physicians. Nursing EthicsNursing Ethics. 2000; 7 (6): 520-530. forthcoming.
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16The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics No. 47 , pp. 125–142 Commodification and Subjectivization - Toward a Critique of the Authorship Discourse (review)Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 24 (47). 2015.What does it mean that the author increasingly turns into a commodity? The article contains a discussion of some academic responses – taken from celebrity studies and autofiction studies – to this tendency. The texts discussed share an effort to rethink authorship, but nonetheless the implicit result is a reinforcement of a traditional, romantic notion of the author. Above all there is a lack of reflection on subjectivity in the authorship discourse, where concepts like “author”, “subject”, “sel…Read more
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36The Necessity of Over-interpretation: Adorno, the Essay, and the Gesture of Aesthetic ExperienceEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 50 (2): 149-168. 2013.This article is a discussion of Theodor W. Adorno’s comment, in the beginning of ‘The Essay as Form’, that interpretations of essays are over-interpretations. I argue that this statement is programmatic, and should be understood in the light of Adorno’s essayistic ideal of configuration, his notion of truth, and his idea of the enigmatic character of art. In order to reveal how this over-interpreting appears in practice, I turn to Adorno’s essay on Kafka. According to Adorno, the reader of Kafka…Read more
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Social Science |