Sverre Raffnsøe
Biographic Data
| ID | 346281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sverre Raffnsøe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sverre |
| FAMILY NAME | Raffnsøe |
| SIGNATURE | RAFFNSØE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9203-6419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Critique and Criticism, in Times of Crisis
The Pressing Task of Critique
Critique Beyond Criticism
Productive Crisis (2024/2025), 40-44.See also Sverre Raffnsøe, "What is Critique?Critical Turns in the Age of Criticism" (2017), for a discussion of the concept and history of critique in general, as well as of the prehistory of critique in particular (esp.36-37).
Affirmative critique as counter-archiving and an-archiving
The article offers an analysis of a major Danish controversy on alleged “excessive academic activism” and “pseudo-Research”. Unfolding in 2021, it not only came to include and affect newspapers, bloggers, the Danish Parliament, the Danish Universities, and the general Danish public, but also did serious harm to the research communities under attack. The article includes anarchived material, a visual cartography and a parodical rendering of the co…
A History of the Humanities in the Modern University
This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline.
New Overlaps and Reciprocities Between the Faculties
History of the Humanities in the Modern University
Anthropology and Philosophy
The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of th…
Robert Harvey, Sharing Common Ground. A Space for Ethics
Les conditions de leur rencontre ne seront pas claircies dans le film. Car ce n'est pas l la question. On se rencontre partout dans le monde. Ce qui importe, c'est ce qui s'ensuit de ces rencontres quotidiennes
Affective Pedagogies, Equine-assisted Experiments and Posthuman Leadership
Responding to Guattari's call for a 'mutation of mentality', the article explores unconventional horse-assisted leadership learning as promising ways of embodied learning to be affected and response-able. By drawing on and continuing the work of Guattari and posthuman feminist scholars, we aim to show that studying the affective pedagogics of opening up the senses and learning to be affected is of vital importance. We analyse a posthuman auto-eth…
Introduction
Philosophical Practice as Self-modification
This essay argues that what makes Michel Foucault's oeuvre not only stand apart but also cohere is an assiduous philosophical practice taking the form of an ongoing yet concrete self-modification in the medium of thought. Part I gives an account of three essential aspects of Foucault's conception of philosophical activity. Beginning with his famous characterization of philosophy in terms of ascēsis, it moves on to articulate his characterization …
Michel Foucault's Confessions of the Flesh. The fourth volume of the History of Sexuality
With Histoire de la sexualité 4: Les aveux de la chair, a long awaited and major publication in Foucault's oeuvre has finally become available.In order to fully understand Les aveux de la chair and its contribution to Foucault's work, Foucault Studies and future use of Foucault's work, it is necessary to understand its publication history as well as its place within Foucault's wider oeuvre and, in particular, his History of Sexuality .This review…
Philosophy of the Anthropocene
A Genealogy of Structuralism and Language
Les mots et les choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines was published in 1966 when the controversies surrounding structuralism were heating up. It was a decisive contribution to the structuralist trend in the wider public and became a phenomenon to be taken into account, not only in the humanities and social sciences but also philosophically. Despite it being a large and inaccessible work on the scientific and philosophical history of Weste…
The Opening of a New Chapter in the World’s History
This initial chapter describes how the Anthropocene gives rise to a still unfamiliar landscape that is distinct and overarching. It is characterized by the fact that the human being holds a new position and a new role. Humankind has acquired a central role as the single most decisive factor on Earth, not only for humans themselves but also in a wide range of contexts that stretch far beyond humanity. In the Anthropocene, humankind has come to pla…
Man at the Centre
Under the present circumstances, the received form and the historical heritage of the human sciences poses a special challenge. It was only 200 years ago, with the re-constitution of the university around 1800, that the human sciences first entered the scene in the shape recognizable today as “humanities” in the modern sense which investigate and contribute to the development of “the more humane issues”. Yet, the development described in the prev…
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault continues to be hugely influential. His diagnoses challenge us to rethink crucial phenomena such as madness, discipline, the human sciences, the state, neoliberalism, sexuality and subject formation. Based on his work in its entirety, and with special emphasis on his many recently published lecture series, this book provides an updated, comprehensive and original account of his thought. By reading Foucault as a philosopher, it off…
Menneskets nye liv
Anmeldelse af Mads Rosendahl Thomsen: The New Human in Literature. Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society after 1900. Bloomsbury, London & New York
Learning to stay ahead of time
In the context of an ongoing change, management is required to take the form of a leadership that must be reignited over and over again. The article examines a new art of leadership that may be viewed as an attempt to keep up with these challenges and stay ahead of time. It emerges from a pilgrimage leadership learning laboratory on the road to Santiago de la Compostela. This moving lab creates situations of extraordinary intensity that border on…
Foucault's dispositive
While Foucault's work has had a crucial impact on organizational research, the analytical potential of the dispositive has not been sufficiently developed. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the notion of the dispositive as a key conception in Foucault's thought, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France, and to develop dispositional analytics with specific reference to matters of organization. Foucault's dispositional anal…
Beyond rule; trust and power as capacities
Taking an approach that avoids comprehending power and trust as entities to be studied apart, the article insists on elucidating trust and power as they are enacted in their intimate and delicate relationship to each other and to other human and social phenomena of similar importance, such as knowledge and experience, gift-giving, hope, freedom and agency. To permit us to understand power and trust as interdependent dimensions, the article confro…
Foucault
Michel Foucault ist einer der am häufigsten zitierten Autoren in den Geisteswissenschaften geworden. Dieses Studienhandbuch bietet eine neue, zusammenhängende Darstellung seiner Schriften, von denen oft behauptet wird, sie seien von Brüchen und Widersprüchen geprägt. Es werden nicht nur die Hauptwerke behandelt, sondern ebenso die kleineren Publikationen und die zahlreichen Vorlesungen. Eine genaue Lektüre dieser umfassenden Textgrundlage lässt s…
Neoliberal Governmentality
It is with great pleasure that we introduce issue 6 of Foucault Studies, which is a themed issue on "neoliberal governmentality" that has been guest edited by Sam Binkley from
Qu’est-ce qu’un dispositif?
Foucault's dispositive
While Foucault's work has had a crucial impact on organizational research, the analytical potential of the dispositive has not been sufficiently developed. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the notion of the dispositive as a key conception in Foucault's thought, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France, and to develop dispositional analytics with specific reference to matters of organization. Foucault's dispositional anal…
Michel Foucault's Confessions of the Flesh. The fourth volume of the History of Sexuality
With Histoire de la sexualité 4: Les aveux de la chair, a long awaited and major publication in Foucault's oeuvre has finally become available.In order to fully understand Les aveux de la chair and its contribution to Foucault's work, Foucault Studies and future use of Foucault's work, it is necessary to understand its publication history as well as its place within Foucault's wider oeuvre and, in particular, his History of Sexuality .This review…
Affective Pedagogies, Equine-assisted Experiments and Posthuman Leadership
Responding to Guattari's call for a 'mutation of mentality', the article explores unconventional horse-assisted leadership learning as promising ways of embodied learning to be affected and response-able. By drawing on and continuing the work of Guattari and posthuman feminist scholars, we aim to show that studying the affective pedagogics of opening up the senses and learning to be affected is of vital importance. We analyse a posthuman auto-eth…
Anthropology and Philosophy
The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of th…
Beyond rule; trust and power as capacities
Taking an approach that avoids comprehending power and trust as entities to be studied apart, the article insists on elucidating trust and power as they are enacted in their intimate and delicate relationship to each other and to other human and social phenomena of similar importance, such as knowledge and experience, gift-giving, hope, freedom and agency. To permit us to understand power and trust as interdependent dimensions, the article confro…
Philosophical Practice as Self-modification
This essay argues that what makes Michel Foucault's oeuvre not only stand apart but also cohere is an assiduous philosophical practice taking the form of an ongoing yet concrete self-modification in the medium of thought. Part I gives an account of three essential aspects of Foucault's conception of philosophical activity. Beginning with his famous characterization of philosophy in terms of ascēsis, it moves on to articulate his characterization …
Learning to stay ahead of time
In the context of an ongoing change, management is required to take the form of a leadership that must be reignited over and over again. The article examines a new art of leadership that may be viewed as an attempt to keep up with these challenges and stay ahead of time. It emerges from a pilgrimage leadership learning laboratory on the road to Santiago de la Compostela. This moving lab creates situations of extraordinary intensity that border on…
Enquête
Enquête: Filosofiens illusion
Nietzsches "Genealogie der Moral"
Nietzsches Werke werden gern als unzugänglich und zusammenhanglos geschmäht. In der Tat ist ihre Lektüre für Studierende oft recht mühselig. Undurchdacht jedoch ist Nietzsches Philosophie nicht. Die schmale Schrift Zur Genealogie der Moral bietet einen repräsentativen Überblick über seine durchaus geordnete Gedankenwelt. Sverre Raffnsøes kommentierende Einführung verhilft zum Verständnis dieser Hauptschrift Nietzsches und eröffnet den Zugang zum …
Qu’est-ce qu’un dispositif?
A New Beginning and a Continuation
When the first issue of Foucault Studies came out in 2004, interest in work of the French thinker was already high and steadily growing. This interest has continued to rise steeply since then
Neoliberal Governmentality
It is with great pleasure that we introduce issue 6 of Foucault Studies, which is a themed issue on "neoliberal governmentality" that has been guest edited by Sam Binkley from
Foucault
Michel Foucault ist einer der am häufigsten zitierten Autoren in den Geisteswissenschaften geworden. Dieses Studienhandbuch bietet eine neue, zusammenhängende Darstellung seiner Schriften, von denen oft behauptet wird, sie seien von Brüchen und Widersprüchen geprägt. Es werden nicht nur die Hauptwerke behandelt, sondern ebenso die kleineren Publikationen und die zahlreichen Vorlesungen. Eine genaue Lektüre dieser umfassenden Textgrundlage lässt s…
Beyond rule; trust and power as capacities
Taking an approach that avoids comprehending power and trust as entities to be studied apart, the article insists on elucidating trust and power as they are enacted in their intimate and delicate relationship to each other and to other human and social phenomena of similar importance, such as knowledge and experience, gift-giving, hope, freedom and agency. To permit us to understand power and trust as interdependent dimensions, the article confro…
Learning to stay ahead of time
In the context of an ongoing change, management is required to take the form of a leadership that must be reignited over and over again. The article examines a new art of leadership that may be viewed as an attempt to keep up with these challenges and stay ahead of time. It emerges from a pilgrimage leadership learning laboratory on the road to Santiago de la Compostela. This moving lab creates situations of extraordinary intensity that border on…
Foucault's dispositive
While Foucault's work has had a crucial impact on organizational research, the analytical potential of the dispositive has not been sufficiently developed. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the notion of the dispositive as a key conception in Foucault's thought, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France, and to develop dispositional analytics with specific reference to matters of organization. Foucault's dispositional anal…
Philosophy of the Anthropocene
A Genealogy of Structuralism and Language
Les mots et les choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines was published in 1966 when the controversies surrounding structuralism were heating up. It was a decisive contribution to the structuralist trend in the wider public and became a phenomenon to be taken into account, not only in the humanities and social sciences but also philosophically. Despite it being a large and inaccessible work on the scientific and philosophical history of Weste…
The Opening of a New Chapter in the World’s History
This initial chapter describes how the Anthropocene gives rise to a still unfamiliar landscape that is distinct and overarching. It is characterized by the fact that the human being holds a new position and a new role. Humankind has acquired a central role as the single most decisive factor on Earth, not only for humans themselves but also in a wide range of contexts that stretch far beyond humanity. In the Anthropocene, humankind has come to pla…
Man at the Centre
Under the present circumstances, the received form and the historical heritage of the human sciences poses a special challenge. It was only 200 years ago, with the re-constitution of the university around 1800, that the human sciences first entered the scene in the shape recognizable today as “humanities” in the modern sense which investigate and contribute to the development of “the more humane issues”. Yet, the development described in the prev…
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault continues to be hugely influential. His diagnoses challenge us to rethink crucial phenomena such as madness, discipline, the human sciences, the state, neoliberalism, sexuality and subject formation. Based on his work in its entirety, and with special emphasis on his many recently published lecture series, this book provides an updated, comprehensive and original account of his thought. By reading Foucault as a philosopher, it off…
Menneskets nye liv
Anmeldelse af Mads Rosendahl Thomsen: The New Human in Literature. Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society after 1900. Bloomsbury, London & New York
Introduction
Philosophical Practice as Self-modification
This essay argues that what makes Michel Foucault's oeuvre not only stand apart but also cohere is an assiduous philosophical practice taking the form of an ongoing yet concrete self-modification in the medium of thought. Part I gives an account of three essential aspects of Foucault's conception of philosophical activity. Beginning with his famous characterization of philosophy in terms of ascēsis, it moves on to articulate his characterization …
Michel Foucault's Confessions of the Flesh. The fourth volume of the History of Sexuality
With Histoire de la sexualité 4: Les aveux de la chair, a long awaited and major publication in Foucault's oeuvre has finally become available.In order to fully understand Les aveux de la chair and its contribution to Foucault's work, Foucault Studies and future use of Foucault's work, it is necessary to understand its publication history as well as its place within Foucault's wider oeuvre and, in particular, his History of Sexuality .This review…
Robert Harvey, Sharing Common Ground. A Space for Ethics
Les conditions de leur rencontre ne seront pas claircies dans le film. Car ce n'est pas l la question. On se rencontre partout dans le monde. Ce qui importe, c'est ce qui s'ensuit de ces rencontres quotidiennes
Affective Pedagogies, Equine-assisted Experiments and Posthuman Leadership
Responding to Guattari's call for a 'mutation of mentality', the article explores unconventional horse-assisted leadership learning as promising ways of embodied learning to be affected and response-able. By drawing on and continuing the work of Guattari and posthuman feminist scholars, we aim to show that studying the affective pedagogics of opening up the senses and learning to be affected is of vital importance. We analyse a posthuman auto-eth…
Anthropology and Philosophy
The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of th…
History of the Humanities in the Modern University
A History of the Humanities in the Modern University
This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline.
New Overlaps and Reciprocities Between the Faculties
The Pressing Task of Critique
Philosophy (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)