Dare to Know: Critical Thinking in a World on Fire

About this course

How can critical thinking help us navigate in a world on fire, where the climate crisis, wars, identity politics, and social media divide us as never before? Faced with endless information, both legitimate and fake, through online echo chambers, how can we find space and courage to think critically and independently? How do we overcome a fear of exclusion in a divisive world, and how can we bridge critical philosophy and praxis?

Through historico-philosophical lenses, we analyze the norms and values that we uncritically live by. Drawing on thinkers like Ahmed, Butler, and Foucault, supplemented by student-led case studies, we find support in Kant’s dictum sapere aude: Dare to know!

Faculty

Jesper Lohmann

Faculty

Cand.mag. (M.A., History of Ideas and American Studies, University of Aarhus, 2002). Former editor of Lettre Internationale. Employment within the public education system. With DIS since 2009.