Focusing on thinkers from continental Europe like Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Copenhagen’s own Søren Kierkegaard, this course traces the development of the conception of ‘selfhood’ in the 19th and 20th centuries. We study how ethical thinking has moved from the language of duty to that of personal answerability, and how the search for meaningful personal existence has increasingly become the responsibility of the individual.
This course is taught in conjunction with the University of Copenhagen and will be taught on their campus, alongside local and international students, a short distance away from DIS classes.
Faculty
Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen
Faculty
Ph.D., Philosophy and European Studies (London School of Economics and Political Science, 2018). Postdoc at Aarhus University, 2021-2024. Postdoc at University of Copenhagen, 2024-. With DIS since 2024.
Mads Peter Karlsen
Faculty
Mads Peter Karlsen, PhD, Associate Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Copenhagen.
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