Gísli Magnússon: "Tabuiseret spiritualitet? Esoterisk tradition som nøglen til Peter Hø... more Gísli Magnússon: "Tabuiseret spiritualitet? Esoterisk tradition som nøglen til Peter Høegs Den stille pige" I 2006 udgav Peter Høeg romanen Den stille pige. Litteraturkritikken– både i Danmark ogi den akademiske verden som sådan – tolkede Høegs roman som et værk af en tvivlsom spirituel vækkelsesprædikant. Også hans forhold til Jes Bertelsen blev set i et kritisk lys, som om Høeg blot var talerør for en guru. Men både denne analyse og betegnelsen ’new age’ yderikke de traditioner, der ligger til grund for Den stille pigeretfærdighed.Ved at kaste et nærmere blik for den esoteriske epistemologi og den esoteriske tankestruktur, bliver det muligt at forstå de diskurser, som ligger til grundlag for Høegs roman. Romanen (og lignende romaner) kan således analyseres som værk i egen ret og ikke som repræsentant for en fejlagtig verdensanskuelse. Hermed fremstår esoterismen som det tertium comparationis, der viser, hvilken mere omfattende strømning både Høeg og Bertelsen er en ...
The Swiss author Pascal Mercier, which is the pen name of the philosopher Peter Bieri, made his d... more The Swiss author Pascal Mercier, which is the pen name of the philosopher Peter Bieri, made his debut as a novelist with the ‘thriller of consciousness’ Perlmanns Schweigen ( Perlmann’s Silence ) in 1995. Already in the first sentence, the reader is confronted with the main character’s failing ability to experience presence, and the oscillation between presence and lack of presence is one of the novel’s main themes. Although being an analytical philosopher himself, philosophical aesthetics seems more relevant than analytical philosophy to the novel’s use of the category of ‘presence’. Therefore, this paper presents a short account of the tradition of philosophical aesthetics from Baumgarten to Gumbrecht and Dorthe Jorgensen. This tradition is the common thread in the presentation of the following themes: “The Psychology of Presence”, “The Stereotypical versus the Presence-enhancing Use of Language”, and “Presence in the Light of the Beauty of Nature and the Beauty of Art”. Key wor...
<jats:p>Karen Blixen was a singular figure in 20th century Danish literary life. In the 193... more <jats:p>Karen Blixen was a singular figure in 20th century Danish literary life. In the 1930s, when Blixen started writing, Danish literature was dominated by social realism centred on the contemporary world. Blixen nourished the myth of herself as the timeless aristocratic storyteller who wrote her works independently of her own historical context. However, by drawing lines to Nietzsche, existentialism, and psychology, Blixen scholars have clearly demonstrated that she belongs to modernism. As her contemporary Samuel Becket, she was a bilingual author (she wrote her works in English and Danish).</jats:p> <jats:p>Karen Blixen's life can be divided into three different phases: During the first (1903–1913), Blixen studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and wrote her first works under the pseudonym Osceola. The second begins in 1914, when she moved to Kenya (British East Africa) with Bror Blixen. The two were separated in 1921, leaving Karen Blixen to run the coffee farm at Ngong Hills alone until financial problems forced her to sell it in 1932. Finally, in 1931, Blixen returned to Denmark and remained at the family manor Rungstedlund until her death in 1962.</jats:p>
Gísli Magnússon’s philosophically rich article explains Knausgård’s aesthetic project as an attem... more Gísli Magnússon’s philosophically rich article explains Knausgård’s aesthetic project as an attempt, against and after poststructuralism, to return to the issues of disenchantment and re-enchantment so prominent in Romantic aesthetic theory. His argument carefully links Knausgård’s aesthetics of epiphany to the category of the “open” in Hölderlin and Rilke, while also giving a prominent place to the aesthetic thought of the contemporary Danish philosopher Dorthe Jørgensen, whose conception of “immanent transcendence” he uses to account for the role of epiphany in Knausgård’s writing.
Gísli Magnússon’s philosophically rich article explains Knausgård’s aesthetic project as an attem... more Gísli Magnússon’s philosophically rich article explains Knausgård’s aesthetic project as an attempt, against and after poststructuralism, to return to the issues of disenchantment and re-enchantment so prominent in Romantic aesthetic theory. His argument carefully links Knausgård’s aesthetics of epiphany to the category of the “open” in Hölderlin and Rilke, while also giving a prominent place to the aesthetic thought of the contemporary Danish philosopher Dorthe Jørgensen, whose conception of “immanent transcendence” he uses to account for the role of epiphany in Knausgård’s writing.
The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema. Eds. Tessel M. Baduin & Henrik Johnsson. [Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities]. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49-66., 2018
Gísli Magnússon: "Tabuiseret spiritualitet? Esoterisk tradition som nøglen til Peter Hø... more Gísli Magnússon: "Tabuiseret spiritualitet? Esoterisk tradition som nøglen til Peter Høegs Den stille pige" I 2006 udgav Peter Høeg romanen Den stille pige. Litteraturkritikken– både i Danmark ogi den akademiske verden som sådan – tolkede Høegs roman som et værk af en tvivlsom spirituel vækkelsesprædikant. Også hans forhold til Jes Bertelsen blev set i et kritisk lys, som om Høeg blot var talerør for en guru. Men både denne analyse og betegnelsen ’new age’ yderikke de traditioner, der ligger til grund for Den stille pigeretfærdighed.Ved at kaste et nærmere blik for den esoteriske epistemologi og den esoteriske tankestruktur, bliver det muligt at forstå de diskurser, som ligger til grundlag for Høegs roman. Romanen (og lignende romaner) kan således analyseres som værk i egen ret og ikke som repræsentant for en fejlagtig verdensanskuelse. Hermed fremstår esoterismen som det tertium comparationis, der viser, hvilken mere omfattende strømning både Høeg og Bertelsen er en ...
The Swiss author Pascal Mercier, which is the pen name of the philosopher Peter Bieri, made his d... more The Swiss author Pascal Mercier, which is the pen name of the philosopher Peter Bieri, made his debut as a novelist with the ‘thriller of consciousness’ Perlmanns Schweigen ( Perlmann’s Silence ) in 1995. Already in the first sentence, the reader is confronted with the main character’s failing ability to experience presence, and the oscillation between presence and lack of presence is one of the novel’s main themes. Although being an analytical philosopher himself, philosophical aesthetics seems more relevant than analytical philosophy to the novel’s use of the category of ‘presence’. Therefore, this paper presents a short account of the tradition of philosophical aesthetics from Baumgarten to Gumbrecht and Dorthe Jorgensen. This tradition is the common thread in the presentation of the following themes: “The Psychology of Presence”, “The Stereotypical versus the Presence-enhancing Use of Language”, and “Presence in the Light of the Beauty of Nature and the Beauty of Art”. Key wor...
<jats:p>Karen Blixen was a singular figure in 20th century Danish literary life. In the 193... more <jats:p>Karen Blixen was a singular figure in 20th century Danish literary life. In the 1930s, when Blixen started writing, Danish literature was dominated by social realism centred on the contemporary world. Blixen nourished the myth of herself as the timeless aristocratic storyteller who wrote her works independently of her own historical context. However, by drawing lines to Nietzsche, existentialism, and psychology, Blixen scholars have clearly demonstrated that she belongs to modernism. As her contemporary Samuel Becket, she was a bilingual author (she wrote her works in English and Danish).</jats:p> <jats:p>Karen Blixen's life can be divided into three different phases: During the first (1903–1913), Blixen studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and wrote her first works under the pseudonym Osceola. The second begins in 1914, when she moved to Kenya (British East Africa) with Bror Blixen. The two were separated in 1921, leaving Karen Blixen to run the coffee farm at Ngong Hills alone until financial problems forced her to sell it in 1932. Finally, in 1931, Blixen returned to Denmark and remained at the family manor Rungstedlund until her death in 1962.</jats:p>
Gísli Magnússon’s philosophically rich article explains Knausgård’s aesthetic project as an attem... more Gísli Magnússon’s philosophically rich article explains Knausgård’s aesthetic project as an attempt, against and after poststructuralism, to return to the issues of disenchantment and re-enchantment so prominent in Romantic aesthetic theory. His argument carefully links Knausgård’s aesthetics of epiphany to the category of the “open” in Hölderlin and Rilke, while also giving a prominent place to the aesthetic thought of the contemporary Danish philosopher Dorthe Jørgensen, whose conception of “immanent transcendence” he uses to account for the role of epiphany in Knausgård’s writing.
Gísli Magnússon’s philosophically rich article explains Knausgård’s aesthetic project as an attem... more Gísli Magnússon’s philosophically rich article explains Knausgård’s aesthetic project as an attempt, against and after poststructuralism, to return to the issues of disenchantment and re-enchantment so prominent in Romantic aesthetic theory. His argument carefully links Knausgård’s aesthetics of epiphany to the category of the “open” in Hölderlin and Rilke, while also giving a prominent place to the aesthetic thought of the contemporary Danish philosopher Dorthe Jørgensen, whose conception of “immanent transcendence” he uses to account for the role of epiphany in Knausgård’s writing.
The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema. Eds. Tessel M. Baduin & Henrik Johnsson. [Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities]. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49-66., 2018
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