Rasmus Dyring
Biographic Data
| ID | 127264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rasmus Dyring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rasmus |
| FAMILY NAME | Dyring |
| SIGNATURE | DYRING R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0320-2973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fathers' transformative caring experiences of engaging in music and singing with their children
This study explores the role of music and singing in fostering transformative caring relationships between fathers and their children. It aims to understand how these interactions contribute to fatherhood identity and relational dynamics, filling a significant gap in research on musical fatherhood. Employing a phenomenological‐hermeneutic approach, the study conducted open‐ended interviews with eight fathers, analysing data through the lens of Pa…
Phenomenologies of aging
This introduction to the special issue on the phenomenologies of aging explores the relative philosophical neglect of aging as a distinct topic. It critiques the naturalistic reduction of aging, which frames it primarily as decline, and examines the ethico-political implications of this perspective. In order to contextualize the possibilities of forming a new sustained philosophical debate on aging, we describe the earlier advances made in the fi…
Gerontological difference
The aim of this paper is to raise the question of aging as an ontological question. In critical dialogue with Heidegger’s exploration of the question of being, the first half of the paper argues that fundamental ontology, due to the way it relies on a methodological operationalization of the ontological difference, will remain blind to the ontological generativity of the differences that aging makes. I introduce the term gerontological difference…
When Experience Turns Critical
Building on a phenomenological analysis of the Tunisian Revolution, this article puts forward the concept of critical experience as a type of experience in which the very experiential structures prove subversive of otherwise established orders (e.g. political, ethical, technological, epistemological etc.). In order to trace the anarchic, but generative impulses of such critical experience, the article develops a variation of the phenomenological …
Generosity as Ethics
A reinterpretation of Mauss’s The Gift reveals—besides its central topic, reciprocity—another implicit theme of generosity, which Mauss was criticized for having ignored. This renders the gift a double transaction. Generosity is a movement away from the self, constituting ethics as envisaged by Levinas. Introducing ethics into the context of the gift allows us to identify points missed by Mauss’s supporters and his critics. Mauss locates generosi…
Ellen and the little one
In this article, we outline a critical phenomenology of potentiality as it emerges in life with dementia. Foregrounding the sources of everyday creativity that are part of life with dementia, we propose a critical counter-argument to that of dementia as a form of living death. Our ethnographic vantage point is an episode we encountered during fieldwork at a dementia unit in Denmark. Here, one of the residents of the unit, Ellen, is interrupted in…
The futures of ‘us’
In this essay, I undertake a critical phenomenological exposition of the conditions of ethical community as they present themselves in the light of the Anthropocene. I begin by approaching the present human condition by following Arendt in her considerations of what more recently has been termed the Anthropocene. I will take her notion of the process character of action as a lodestar in a so-called anarcheological reading of Aristotle that opens …
Critical Phenomenology
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Please check back later for the full article. Since the turn of the millennium, critical phenomenology has developed in a parallel fashion in both philosophy and anthropology, with considerable cross-pollination between the two movements. Where philosophical phenomenology traditionally has focused on disclosing the transcendental structures of…
From moral facts to human finitude
The ethical turn in anthropology was to a large extent premised on a decisive break with Durkheimian "unfreedom." This essay explores the theoretical condition in which this break has left the project of describing ethnographically the possibilities of human freedom. The essay explicates some ambiguities in the way freedom has been conceptualized in the current anthropological debates, and proposes to view freedom in terms of excessive experience…
Moral Engines
In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary co…
Moral Engines
Moral Engines
The Question of ‘Moral Engines’
Ellen and the little one
In this article, we outline a critical phenomenology of potentiality as it emerges in life with dementia. Foregrounding the sources of everyday creativity that are part of life with dementia, we propose a critical counter-argument to that of dementia as a form of living death. Our ethnographic vantage point is an episode we encountered during fieldwork at a dementia unit in Denmark. Here, one of the residents of the unit, Ellen, is interrupted in…
From moral facts to human finitude
The ethical turn in anthropology was to a large extent premised on a decisive break with Durkheimian "unfreedom." This essay explores the theoretical condition in which this break has left the project of describing ethnographically the possibilities of human freedom. The essay explicates some ambiguities in the way freedom has been conceptualized in the current anthropological debates, and proposes to view freedom in terms of excessive experience…
When Experience Turns Critical
Building on a phenomenological analysis of the Tunisian Revolution, this article puts forward the concept of critical experience as a type of experience in which the very experiential structures prove subversive of otherwise established orders (e.g. political, ethical, technological, epistemological etc.). In order to trace the anarchic, but generative impulses of such critical experience, the article develops a variation of the phenomenological …
Generosity as Ethics
A reinterpretation of Mauss’s The Gift reveals—besides its central topic, reciprocity—another implicit theme of generosity, which Mauss was criticized for having ignored. This renders the gift a double transaction. Generosity is a movement away from the self, constituting ethics as envisaged by Levinas. Introducing ethics into the context of the gift allows us to identify points missed by Mauss’s supporters and his critics. Mauss locates generosi…
The futures of ‘us’
In this essay, I undertake a critical phenomenological exposition of the conditions of ethical community as they present themselves in the light of the Anthropocene. I begin by approaching the present human condition by following Arendt in her considerations of what more recently has been termed the Anthropocene. I will take her notion of the process character of action as a lodestar in a so-called anarcheological reading of Aristotle that opens …
Moral Engines
In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary co…
Moral Engines
Moral Engines
The Question of ‘Moral Engines’
From moral facts to human finitude
The ethical turn in anthropology was to a large extent premised on a decisive break with Durkheimian "unfreedom." This essay explores the theoretical condition in which this break has left the project of describing ethnographically the possibilities of human freedom. The essay explicates some ambiguities in the way freedom has been conceptualized in the current anthropological debates, and proposes to view freedom in terms of excessive experience…
Critical Phenomenology
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Please check back later for the full article. Since the turn of the millennium, critical phenomenology has developed in a parallel fashion in both philosophy and anthropology, with considerable cross-pollination between the two movements. Where philosophical phenomenology traditionally has focused on disclosing the transcendental structures of…
The futures of ‘us’
In this essay, I undertake a critical phenomenological exposition of the conditions of ethical community as they present themselves in the light of the Anthropocene. I begin by approaching the present human condition by following Arendt in her considerations of what more recently has been termed the Anthropocene. I will take her notion of the process character of action as a lodestar in a so-called anarcheological reading of Aristotle that opens …
Ellen and the little one
In this article, we outline a critical phenomenology of potentiality as it emerges in life with dementia. Foregrounding the sources of everyday creativity that are part of life with dementia, we propose a critical counter-argument to that of dementia as a form of living death. Our ethnographic vantage point is an episode we encountered during fieldwork at a dementia unit in Denmark. Here, one of the residents of the unit, Ellen, is interrupted in…
Phenomenologies of aging
This introduction to the special issue on the phenomenologies of aging explores the relative philosophical neglect of aging as a distinct topic. It critiques the naturalistic reduction of aging, which frames it primarily as decline, and examines the ethico-political implications of this perspective. In order to contextualize the possibilities of forming a new sustained philosophical debate on aging, we describe the earlier advances made in the fi…
Gerontological difference
The aim of this paper is to raise the question of aging as an ontological question. In critical dialogue with Heidegger’s exploration of the question of being, the first half of the paper argues that fundamental ontology, due to the way it relies on a methodological operationalization of the ontological difference, will remain blind to the ontological generativity of the differences that aging makes. I introduce the term gerontological difference…
When Experience Turns Critical
Building on a phenomenological analysis of the Tunisian Revolution, this article puts forward the concept of critical experience as a type of experience in which the very experiential structures prove subversive of otherwise established orders (e.g. political, ethical, technological, epistemological etc.). In order to trace the anarchic, but generative impulses of such critical experience, the article develops a variation of the phenomenological …
Generosity as Ethics
A reinterpretation of Mauss’s The Gift reveals—besides its central topic, reciprocity—another implicit theme of generosity, which Mauss was criticized for having ignored. This renders the gift a double transaction. Generosity is a movement away from the self, constituting ethics as envisaged by Levinas. Introducing ethics into the context of the gift allows us to identify points missed by Mauss’s supporters and his critics. Mauss locates generosi…
Fathers' transformative caring experiences of engaging in music and singing with their children
This study explores the role of music and singing in fostering transformative caring relationships between fathers and their children. It aims to understand how these interactions contribute to fatherhood identity and relational dynamics, filling a significant gap in research on musical fatherhood. Employing a phenomenological‐hermeneutic approach, the study conducted open‐ended interviews with eight fathers, analysing data through the lens of Pa…
Philosophy (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (2 works)