Tue Andersen Nexø
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tue Andersen Nexø |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tue Andersen |
| FAMILY NAME | Nexø |
| SIGNATURE | NEXØ T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Utopia against the welfare state
This essay uses the work the easiness and the loneliness (2013) by the Danish author Asta Olivia Nordenhof to examine the relationship between utopian imaginings and representations of everyday life. It also attempts to develop an alternative to the American literary theorist Fredric Jameson’s influential theories on the form and function of utopian writing. The context for Jameson’s theory of utopia is a diagnosis of our present characterised by…
Reading utopias now
What use are utopias in lean years? The question posed by the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, and repeated a century and a half later by Martin Heidegger – wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit
Det sentimentale
Handelens mangfoldige kulturhistorie
To Be Unfree
»To Be Unfree« is a collection of essays investigating how political unfreedom has been and can be articulated within the republican tradition of political thought. The book combines a theoretical discussion of how freedom and its opposites have been conceptualized in the republican tradition with a broader perspective on this tradition's impact on the representation of unfreedom in Western literature and cultural history. It thus complicates our…
Robinson Crusoe på romanens tærskel
Robinson Crusoe on the threshold of the novelJust as Ian Watt did in his classic reading of Robinson Crusoe in The Rise of the Novel, this article argues that Defoe’s well known book stands in a liminal relation to the novel as an emergent literary form. Watt argues that the liminality of Robinson Crusoe is caused by the book’s excessive thematic focus on an entrepeneurial individualism. Through an examination of the text’s discursive status at t…
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Robinson Crusoe på romanens tærskel
Robinson Crusoe on the threshold of the novelJust as Ian Watt did in his classic reading of Robinson Crusoe in The Rise of the Novel, this article argues that Defoe’s well known book stands in a liminal relation to the novel as an emergent literary form. Watt argues that the liminality of Robinson Crusoe is caused by the book’s excessive thematic focus on an entrepeneurial individualism. Through an examination of the text’s discursive status at t…
To Be Unfree
»To Be Unfree« is a collection of essays investigating how political unfreedom has been and can be articulated within the republican tradition of political thought. The book combines a theoretical discussion of how freedom and its opposites have been conceptualized in the republican tradition with a broader perspective on this tradition's impact on the representation of unfreedom in Western literature and cultural history. It thus complicates our…
Handelens mangfoldige kulturhistorie
Det sentimentale
Utopia against the welfare state
This essay uses the work the easiness and the loneliness (2013) by the Danish author Asta Olivia Nordenhof to examine the relationship between utopian imaginings and representations of everyday life. It also attempts to develop an alternative to the American literary theorist Fredric Jameson’s influential theories on the form and function of utopian writing. The context for Jameson’s theory of utopia is a diagnosis of our present characterised by…
Reading utopias now
What use are utopias in lean years? The question posed by the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, and repeated a century and a half later by Martin Heidegger – wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit
Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works)