Jacob Egholm Feldt
Biographic Data
| ID | 274099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Egholm Feldt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob Egholm |
| FAMILY NAME | Feldt |
| SIGNATURE | FELDT J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6418-8418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Usefulness happens while we do other things
This paper explores the impact of generative AI (GAI) on higher education, framing it as an ‘endangerment’ of established practices and values. It challenges the dominant utilitarian perspective, which prioritizes the usefulness of tools and technologies, arguing that this approach overlooks the transformative potency of GAI, and its impact on historical learning practices, such as reading and writing. Drawing on Arendt’s distinction between valu…
Teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordics
This roundtable offers a collaborative, multi-vocal forum on the topic of teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordic region, featuring contributions from scholars and instructors based in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Conceived as a reflective platform, it weaves together critical insights, pedagogical experiences, and institutional perspectives. Topics include national contexts, classroom practices, both conventional and experimental curricul…
Amalgamation and Regeneration
This article discusses Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot (1908) and Horace M. Kallen's essay ‘Democracy versus the Melting Pot’ (1915) as two different visions of future Jewish inclusion. Zangwill's play and Kallen's response reflect social changes at the time, and both visions consider Jewish history exemplary for the world-to-come. Both show how conceptions of Jewishness were turned into universalist teleologies, but of different kinds. Za…
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum
In this article, I discuss how the principle of exemplarity developed in the 1970s by the Marxist educators and theorists Oskar Negt and Knud Illeris can be a model for a deliberative curriculum. Today’s crisis-ridden discourses of ‘taking back’, ‘reclaiming’, etc., the practices and purposes of the university are evidence of a widespread experience of alienation and loss of meaning, but also of theorizations effacing practical responsibility, ow…
The eternally rescued
Between agency and event
In this study, I explore a pragmatist and processualist perspective on the interpretation of historical sources. By analyzing Horace M. Kallen’s 1918 book, ‘The Book of Job as a Greek Tragedy’, regarded as an instance of pragmatist historical inquiry, this paper engages with recent processual and evental approaches to history. It elucidates a conceptualization of historical sources as ‘actor-events’. Through Kallen’s example, the paper demonstrat…
Studying as Experimentation
In this article, and through thinking-with John Dewey, we consider the nature of the experiment and how we, as students and scholars, from experiments learn how to increase our purposeful transactions with the world. We particularly emphasize how knowing, knowledge, and thinking, all prominent concepts in the literature about the purpose of higher education, are outcomes of experimenting with obstacles, problems, or possible paths and movements. …
Futures of Jewish Exemplarity
Futures of Jewish Exemplarity Jakob Egholm Feldt Georg Simmel's "The Stranger" (1908) might be considered an exemplar for the processual relationship between the particular and the general in history. As Elizabeth Goodstein notes in her book on Simmel, the stranger exemplifies Simmel's social theory, holding that over time and across various events, particularities can evolve into general forms or abstractions, and they may become a lens through …
Inquiry-based learning in the Humanities
In this article, we present a new perspective on how to combine inquiry-based, problem-oriented learning with practices in the Humanities. Our particular interest is how the initial phase of finding “the problem” can be undertaken in a conjoint way with students, that is in the form of inquiry-based learning where there are no pre-defined questions set by the teacher. Inspired by C. Wright Mills , we argue that “the imagination” is key to opening…
The future of the stranger
This article shows how Jewish social strangeness is a key notion for a trajectory of theorizing from Moses Hess' socialist and nationalist thought in the middle of the nineteenth century to American pragmatist sociology early in the twentieth century. It situates 'the Jewish stranger' on the transmission lines of trajectories of thought pertaining to Jewish exemplarity, and it explores how this Jewish exemplarity was transformed toward new future…
Transnationalism and the Jews
The concept of transnationalism has been widely used for many years to describe mobility and cross-border relations in the modern, globalized world. Most uses of the concept of transnationalism neglect its historical trajectory and largely ignore the networks that constructed its meaning and normativity.Transnationalism and the Jews directly relates ideas about transnationalism and cultural pluralism to Jewish historical experience. It shows how …
New futures, new pasts
Early in the twentieth century, American philosopher and educator Horace M. Kallen (1882–1974) constructed a cultural philosophy under the headline Cultural Pluralism. This philosophy was intended to have cosmopolitan effects in the sense that it had global ecumenical concerns for the social hope for all. Nevertheless, Kallen avoided the concept of cosmopolitanism because of the deep controversy over Jews and Jewishness entangled in the history o…
The Making of Modern Israel 1948-1967. Leslie STEIN
Orientalisme og Israel – tre skabeloner for orientalisme-receptionen i jødiske studier
Denne artikel vil følge Edward W. Saids begreb ”orientalisme” inden for et særligt områdestudium. Jødiske studier er ofte dybt politisk og etisk motiverede foruden at være etnisk motiverede i den forstand, at mange forskere er engagerede i jødisk kulturpolitik, ligesom Said var dybt engageret i palæstinensernes politiske sag. Mit spørgsmål vil således være: hvordan har jødiske studier, som områdestudium betragtet, modtaget orientalismebegrebet? M…
År med Orientalism
History and peace education in Israel/Palestine
This article discusses the role of history in peace education in the Israeli–Palestinian context. Israeli and Palestinian histories are vital parts of the conflict between the two collectives aiming at the destruction of the collective memory of the Other. Nevertheless, history's role in peace education is rarely discussed from a theoretical and philosophical perspective but only from a realist and representationalist perspective. Israeli and Pal…
Den jødiske tøsedreng - Eksegese over Daniel Boyarin
Orientalisme, Edward Said og Ümit Necef. En kommentar til Mehmet Ümit Necefs artikel "Sex og Orientalisme - med Gustave Flaubert i hamam"
Position
POSITION II: Jakob Egholm Feldt: Kulturmøder, kultur og rationalitet
The future of the stranger
This article shows how Jewish social strangeness is a key notion for a trajectory of theorizing from Moses Hess' socialist and nationalist thought in the middle of the nineteenth century to American pragmatist sociology early in the twentieth century. It situates 'the Jewish stranger' on the transmission lines of trajectories of thought pertaining to Jewish exemplarity, and it explores how this Jewish exemplarity was transformed toward new future…
History and peace education in Israel/Palestine
This article discusses the role of history in peace education in the Israeli–Palestinian context. Israeli and Palestinian histories are vital parts of the conflict between the two collectives aiming at the destruction of the collective memory of the Other. Nevertheless, history's role in peace education is rarely discussed from a theoretical and philosophical perspective but only from a realist and representationalist perspective. Israeli and Pal…
New futures, new pasts
Early in the twentieth century, American philosopher and educator Horace M. Kallen (1882–1974) constructed a cultural philosophy under the headline Cultural Pluralism. This philosophy was intended to have cosmopolitan effects in the sense that it had global ecumenical concerns for the social hope for all. Nevertheless, Kallen avoided the concept of cosmopolitanism because of the deep controversy over Jews and Jewishness entangled in the history o…
Orientalisme, Edward Said og Ümit Necef. En kommentar til Mehmet Ümit Necefs artikel "Sex og Orientalisme - med Gustave Flaubert i hamam"
Position
POSITION II: Jakob Egholm Feldt: Kulturmøder, kultur og rationalitet
History and peace education in Israel/Palestine
This article discusses the role of history in peace education in the Israeli–Palestinian context. Israeli and Palestinian histories are vital parts of the conflict between the two collectives aiming at the destruction of the collective memory of the Other. Nevertheless, history's role in peace education is rarely discussed from a theoretical and philosophical perspective but only from a realist and representationalist perspective. Israeli and Pal…
Den jødiske tøsedreng - Eksegese over Daniel Boyarin
Orientalisme og Israel – tre skabeloner for orientalisme-receptionen i jødiske studier
Denne artikel vil følge Edward W. Saids begreb ”orientalisme” inden for et særligt områdestudium. Jødiske studier er ofte dybt politisk og etisk motiverede foruden at være etnisk motiverede i den forstand, at mange forskere er engagerede i jødisk kulturpolitik, ligesom Said var dybt engageret i palæstinensernes politiske sag. Mit spørgsmål vil således være: hvordan har jødiske studier, som områdestudium betragtet, modtaget orientalismebegrebet? M…
År med Orientalism
The Making of Modern Israel 1948-1967. Leslie STEIN
Transnationalism and the Jews
The concept of transnationalism has been widely used for many years to describe mobility and cross-border relations in the modern, globalized world. Most uses of the concept of transnationalism neglect its historical trajectory and largely ignore the networks that constructed its meaning and normativity.Transnationalism and the Jews directly relates ideas about transnationalism and cultural pluralism to Jewish historical experience. It shows how …
New futures, new pasts
Early in the twentieth century, American philosopher and educator Horace M. Kallen (1882–1974) constructed a cultural philosophy under the headline Cultural Pluralism. This philosophy was intended to have cosmopolitan effects in the sense that it had global ecumenical concerns for the social hope for all. Nevertheless, Kallen avoided the concept of cosmopolitanism because of the deep controversy over Jews and Jewishness entangled in the history o…
Inquiry-based learning in the Humanities
In this article, we present a new perspective on how to combine inquiry-based, problem-oriented learning with practices in the Humanities. Our particular interest is how the initial phase of finding “the problem” can be undertaken in a conjoint way with students, that is in the form of inquiry-based learning where there are no pre-defined questions set by the teacher. Inspired by C. Wright Mills , we argue that “the imagination” is key to opening…
The future of the stranger
This article shows how Jewish social strangeness is a key notion for a trajectory of theorizing from Moses Hess' socialist and nationalist thought in the middle of the nineteenth century to American pragmatist sociology early in the twentieth century. It situates 'the Jewish stranger' on the transmission lines of trajectories of thought pertaining to Jewish exemplarity, and it explores how this Jewish exemplarity was transformed toward new future…
Studying as Experimentation
In this article, and through thinking-with John Dewey, we consider the nature of the experiment and how we, as students and scholars, from experiments learn how to increase our purposeful transactions with the world. We particularly emphasize how knowing, knowledge, and thinking, all prominent concepts in the literature about the purpose of higher education, are outcomes of experimenting with obstacles, problems, or possible paths and movements. …
Futures of Jewish Exemplarity
Futures of Jewish Exemplarity Jakob Egholm Feldt Georg Simmel's "The Stranger" (1908) might be considered an exemplar for the processual relationship between the particular and the general in history. As Elizabeth Goodstein notes in her book on Simmel, the stranger exemplifies Simmel's social theory, holding that over time and across various events, particularities can evolve into general forms or abstractions, and they may become a lens through …
Exemplarity as deliberative curriculum
In this article, I discuss how the principle of exemplarity developed in the 1970s by the Marxist educators and theorists Oskar Negt and Knud Illeris can be a model for a deliberative curriculum. Today’s crisis-ridden discourses of ‘taking back’, ‘reclaiming’, etc., the practices and purposes of the university are evidence of a widespread experience of alienation and loss of meaning, but also of theorizations effacing practical responsibility, ow…
The eternally rescued
Between agency and event
In this study, I explore a pragmatist and processualist perspective on the interpretation of historical sources. By analyzing Horace M. Kallen’s 1918 book, ‘The Book of Job as a Greek Tragedy’, regarded as an instance of pragmatist historical inquiry, this paper engages with recent processual and evental approaches to history. It elucidates a conceptualization of historical sources as ‘actor-events’. Through Kallen’s example, the paper demonstrat…
Amalgamation and Regeneration
This article discusses Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot (1908) and Horace M. Kallen's essay ‘Democracy versus the Melting Pot’ (1915) as two different visions of future Jewish inclusion. Zangwill's play and Kallen's response reflect social changes at the time, and both visions consider Jewish history exemplary for the world-to-come. Both show how conceptions of Jewishness were turned into universalist teleologies, but of different kinds. Za…
Usefulness happens while we do other things
This paper explores the impact of generative AI (GAI) on higher education, framing it as an ‘endangerment’ of established practices and values. It challenges the dominant utilitarian perspective, which prioritizes the usefulness of tools and technologies, arguing that this approach overlooks the transformative potency of GAI, and its impact on historical learning practices, such as reading and writing. Drawing on Arendt’s distinction between valu…
Teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordics
This roundtable offers a collaborative, multi-vocal forum on the topic of teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordic region, featuring contributions from scholars and instructors based in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Conceived as a reflective platform, it weaves together critical insights, pedagogical experiences, and institutional perspectives. Topics include national contexts, classroom practices, both conventional and experimental curricul…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Judaism (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Law (5 works)