Arne Johan Vetlesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 378524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arne Johan Vetlesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arne Johan |
| FAMILY NAME | Vetlesen |
| SIGNATURE | VETLESEN A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2501-636X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ikke-antroposentrisme og eurosentrisme – to sider av samme sak
Krisebevissthet og medisinsk leseevne
Faget medisin har gradvis blitt mer avhengig av teknologi på måter som forsterker objektiveringen av mennesket. For pasienten handler dette i økende grad om å bli isolert fra en større kontekst og delt i fragmenter. Vi påpeker at denne utviklingen er beslektet med en distansering til, og tingliggjøring av, naturen. Denne utviklingens etiske implikasjoner fordrer på begge områder besinnelse, tenksomhet, ydmykhet og handlekraft. Vi foreslår derfor …
Ethics in the Anthropocene: The case for questioning anthropocentrism
Animal Lives and Why They Matter
This book engages with the changing ways in which we, as a society and culture, look upon and interact with animals, stressing how much animals differ among themselves. An invitation to appreciate the peculiar role of animals in telling important if uncomfortable truths about who we are and where we are heading – namely, towards a world so much poorer in cultural, moral, and biological diversity – as a result of the ongoing decimation of so many …
Response to Charles Hanly’s Commentary on “The Epistemological Stance of Psychoanalysis: Revisiting the Kantian Legacy”
Hanly has written a scholarly discussion of Freud’s epistemology and related it to Kant’s. He concludes with a rejection of Kant’s position:Kant’s epistemology is an ingenious denial of this unplea
The Epistemological Stance of Psychoanalysis: Revisiting the Kantian Legacy
Psychoanalysis, as conceived by Freud, originates from an epistemological position that is often at odds with related disciplines such as psychology and psychiatry. We argue that psychoanalysis is wedded to a Kantian epistemology that is rigorously committed to modesty. The aim of the article is to illustrate how Freud's thinking was embedded within a Kantian epistemology. Even if he was not explicit, a prevailing Kantian philosophical discussion…
The intellectual in Auschwitz: Between vulnerability and resistance: (In memory of Keith Tester)
The significance of being an intellectual when taken prisoner and sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis is rarely discussed - instead, the importance of being either a Jew or a political prisoner (say, a German communist) is highlighted. By contrast, Jean Amery's recollections of being tortured and sent to Auschwitz concentrate on his self-understanding as an intellectual. What difference does the identity and outlook as an intellectual make …
Cosmologies of the Anthropocene: Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism
This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene. Arguing that matter, and, more broadly, the natural world, has been misconceived since Descartes, it explores the devastating impact that this has had in practice in the West. As such, alternatives are needed, whether philosophical ones such as those offered by figures such as Whitehead an…
Ethics and Value in Naess’ Ecophilosophy
It appears that Naess thought his ecophilosophy could do without ethics. What made him think so? Since Naess was largely implicit about his metaethical views, I turn to Warwick Fox’ elaborate presentation of Naess’ ecophilosophy to find an answer. Doing so allows me to investigate what is insufficiently accounted for in Naess’ ecophilosophy, namely its ontological presuppositions. To be philosophically sound, Naess’ criticisms of ethics need to q…
The Denial of Nature: Environmental philosophy in the era of global capitalism
Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: Confronting the end of nature Chapter 1: The foundational fantasy goes global Chapter 2: Nature deficit in critical theory Chapter 3: Philosophizing value in nature Chapter 4: Technology, encounter, and the dangers of abstraction Conclusion: Revindicating panpsychism Bibliography Index
The Denial of Nature: Environmental Philosophy in the Era of Global Capitalism
A study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and nature, this book seeks to go beyond work already contributed to the environmental movement. It does so by highlighting the importance of experiencing, rather than merely theorizing nature, while realizing that such experience is becoming increasingly rare, thus reinforcing the estrangement from nature that is a source of its ongoing human-caused destruction. In his original a…
Post-Hiroshima reflections on extinction
Hiroshima was the first sign of the possibility of the human-inflicted devastation of the natural as well as the human world. But the potential for destruction is greater than it was in August 1945. It is now incumbent upon philosophy and critical though to consider the contemporary destruction of the non-human species and ecology upon which continued human life depends. This paper uses Hiroshima as a point of entry into consideration of the need…
Empati under press
The Immorality of Terrorism and the Ethical Core of the Envy That Spurs it
Habermas’ verk Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns: En kritisk gjennomgang
A Case for Resentment: Jean Améry versus Primo Levi
Resentment is an attitude with few advocates. When openly displayed, resentment is likely to meet with irritation. To show resentment is regarded as reflecting negatively on the agent's character
Individuell og kollektiv ondskap
Ondskap
Hannah Arendt on conscience and evil
Though there exists a vast literature dealing with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on evil in general and Adolf Eichmann in particular, few attempts have been made to assess Arendt’s position on evil by tracing its connection with her reflections on conscience. This essay examines the nature and significance of such a connection. Beginning with her doctoral dissertation on St Augustine and ending with her posthumously published studies in The Life of th…
Genocide: A Case for the Responsibility of the Bystander
In this article, the case of Bosnia is used to raise important theoretical and practical questions concerning the role of third parties in preventing and punishing genocide. After the massacre at Srebrenica, a UN-declared `safe area', the debate over complicity in genocide on the part of UN personnel has gained particular urgency, and much of the discussion here is related to that debate. The article also draws attention to the role of intellectu…
Impartiality and evil: A reconsideration provoked by genocide in Bosnia
Confronted with Adolf Eichmann, evildoer par excellence, Hannah Arendt sought in vain for any 'depth' to the evil he had wrought. How is the philosopher to approach evil ? Is the celebrated criterion of impartiality ill-equipped to guide judgment when its object is evil - as exhibited, for instance, in the recent genocide in Bosnia? This essay questions the ability of the neutral 'third party' to respond adequately to evil from a standpoint of av…
Worlds apart: Habermas and Levinas
Though doubtless two of the leading philosophers in ethics today, Habermas and Levinas have yet to be subjected to sys tematic comparison. This essay undertakes a first step. Differences of terminology aside, Habermas and Levinas can be seen to pursue, via separate routes, a similar core idea. I term this the idea of immanent normativity. While Habermas locates an unchosen normative pull in the medium of interpersonal communication, Levinas locat…
Hannah Arendt, Habermas and the republican tradition
L'A. souleve le probleme de savoir si les objections opposees par Habermas au modele republicain et liberal de la democratie peuvent s'appliquer a la pensee politique d'H. Arendt, fondee sur la notion aristotelicienne de liberte publique. L'A. montre que le republicanisme d'H. Arendt n'est pas une instance de la philosophie hegelienne de la conscience que rejette Habermas a travers sa theorie du discours
Genocide: A Case for the Responsibility of the Bystander
In this article, the case of Bosnia is used to raise important theoretical and practical questions concerning the role of third parties in preventing and punishing genocide. After the massacre at Srebrenica, a UN-declared `safe area', the debate over complicity in genocide on the part of UN personnel has gained particular urgency, and much of the discussion here is related to that debate. The article also draws attention to the role of intellectu…
The Epistemological Stance of Psychoanalysis: Revisiting the Kantian Legacy
Psychoanalysis, as conceived by Freud, originates from an epistemological position that is often at odds with related disciplines such as psychology and psychiatry. We argue that psychoanalysis is wedded to a Kantian epistemology that is rigorously committed to modesty. The aim of the article is to illustrate how Freud's thinking was embedded within a Kantian epistemology. Even if he was not explicit, a prevailing Kantian philosophical discussion…
Worlds apart: Habermas and Levinas
Though doubtless two of the leading philosophers in ethics today, Habermas and Levinas have yet to be subjected to sys tematic comparison. This essay undertakes a first step. Differences of terminology aside, Habermas and Levinas can be seen to pursue, via separate routes, a similar core idea. I term this the idea of immanent normativity. While Habermas locates an unchosen normative pull in the medium of interpersonal communication, Levinas locat…
A Case for Resentment: Jean Améry versus Primo Levi
Resentment is an attitude with few advocates. When openly displayed, resentment is likely to meet with irritation. To show resentment is regarded as reflecting negatively on the agent's character
Ethics in the Anthropocene: The case for questioning anthropocentrism
Post-Hiroshima reflections on extinction
Hiroshima was the first sign of the possibility of the human-inflicted devastation of the natural as well as the human world. But the potential for destruction is greater than it was in August 1945. It is now incumbent upon philosophy and critical though to consider the contemporary destruction of the non-human species and ecology upon which continued human life depends. This paper uses Hiroshima as a point of entry into consideration of the need…
Empati under press
Impartiality and evil: A reconsideration provoked by genocide in Bosnia
Confronted with Adolf Eichmann, evildoer par excellence, Hannah Arendt sought in vain for any 'depth' to the evil he had wrought. How is the philosopher to approach evil ? Is the celebrated criterion of impartiality ill-equipped to guide judgment when its object is evil - as exhibited, for instance, in the recent genocide in Bosnia? This essay questions the ability of the neutral 'third party' to respond adequately to evil from a standpoint of av…
Hannah Arendt, Habermas and the republican tradition
L'A. souleve le probleme de savoir si les objections opposees par Habermas au modele republicain et liberal de la democratie peuvent s'appliquer a la pensee politique d'H. Arendt, fondee sur la notion aristotelicienne de liberte publique. L'A. montre que le republicanisme d'H. Arendt n'est pas une instance de la philosophie hegelienne de la conscience que rejette Habermas a travers sa theorie du discours
Hannah Arendt, Habermas and the republican tradition
L'A. souleve le probleme de savoir si les objections opposees par Habermas au modele republicain et liberal de la democratie peuvent s'appliquer a la pensee politique d'H. Arendt, fondee sur la notion aristotelicienne de liberte publique. L'A. montre que le republicanisme d'H. Arendt n'est pas une instance de la philosophie hegelienne de la conscience que rejette Habermas a travers sa theorie du discours
Worlds apart: Habermas and Levinas
Though doubtless two of the leading philosophers in ethics today, Habermas and Levinas have yet to be subjected to sys tematic comparison. This essay undertakes a first step. Differences of terminology aside, Habermas and Levinas can be seen to pursue, via separate routes, a similar core idea. I term this the idea of immanent normativity. While Habermas locates an unchosen normative pull in the medium of interpersonal communication, Levinas locat…
Impartiality and evil: A reconsideration provoked by genocide in Bosnia
Confronted with Adolf Eichmann, evildoer par excellence, Hannah Arendt sought in vain for any 'depth' to the evil he had wrought. How is the philosopher to approach evil ? Is the celebrated criterion of impartiality ill-equipped to guide judgment when its object is evil - as exhibited, for instance, in the recent genocide in Bosnia? This essay questions the ability of the neutral 'third party' to respond adequately to evil from a standpoint of av…
Genocide: A Case for the Responsibility of the Bystander
In this article, the case of Bosnia is used to raise important theoretical and practical questions concerning the role of third parties in preventing and punishing genocide. After the massacre at Srebrenica, a UN-declared `safe area', the debate over complicity in genocide on the part of UN personnel has gained particular urgency, and much of the discussion here is related to that debate. The article also draws attention to the role of intellectu…
Ondskap
Hannah Arendt on conscience and evil
Though there exists a vast literature dealing with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on evil in general and Adolf Eichmann in particular, few attempts have been made to assess Arendt’s position on evil by tracing its connection with her reflections on conscience. This essay examines the nature and significance of such a connection. Beginning with her doctoral dissertation on St Augustine and ending with her posthumously published studies in The Life of th…
Individuell og kollektiv ondskap
The Immorality of Terrorism and the Ethical Core of the Envy That Spurs it
Habermas’ verk Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns: En kritisk gjennomgang
A Case for Resentment: Jean Améry versus Primo Levi
Resentment is an attitude with few advocates. When openly displayed, resentment is likely to meet with irritation. To show resentment is regarded as reflecting negatively on the agent's character
Empati under press
The Denial of Nature: Environmental philosophy in the era of global capitalism
Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: Confronting the end of nature Chapter 1: The foundational fantasy goes global Chapter 2: Nature deficit in critical theory Chapter 3: Philosophizing value in nature Chapter 4: Technology, encounter, and the dangers of abstraction Conclusion: Revindicating panpsychism Bibliography Index
The Denial of Nature: Environmental Philosophy in the Era of Global Capitalism
A study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and nature, this book seeks to go beyond work already contributed to the environmental movement. It does so by highlighting the importance of experiencing, rather than merely theorizing nature, while realizing that such experience is becoming increasingly rare, thus reinforcing the estrangement from nature that is a source of its ongoing human-caused destruction. In his original a…
Post-Hiroshima reflections on extinction
Hiroshima was the first sign of the possibility of the human-inflicted devastation of the natural as well as the human world. But the potential for destruction is greater than it was in August 1945. It is now incumbent upon philosophy and critical though to consider the contemporary destruction of the non-human species and ecology upon which continued human life depends. This paper uses Hiroshima as a point of entry into consideration of the need…
Ethics and Value in Naess’ Ecophilosophy
It appears that Naess thought his ecophilosophy could do without ethics. What made him think so? Since Naess was largely implicit about his metaethical views, I turn to Warwick Fox’ elaborate presentation of Naess’ ecophilosophy to find an answer. Doing so allows me to investigate what is insufficiently accounted for in Naess’ ecophilosophy, namely its ontological presuppositions. To be philosophically sound, Naess’ criticisms of ethics need to q…
Cosmologies of the Anthropocene: Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism
This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene. Arguing that matter, and, more broadly, the natural world, has been misconceived since Descartes, it explores the devastating impact that this has had in practice in the West. As such, alternatives are needed, whether philosophical ones such as those offered by figures such as Whitehead an…
Response to Charles Hanly’s Commentary on “The Epistemological Stance of Psychoanalysis: Revisiting the Kantian Legacy”
Hanly has written a scholarly discussion of Freud’s epistemology and related it to Kant’s. He concludes with a rejection of Kant’s position:Kant’s epistemology is an ingenious denial of this unplea
The Epistemological Stance of Psychoanalysis: Revisiting the Kantian Legacy
Psychoanalysis, as conceived by Freud, originates from an epistemological position that is often at odds with related disciplines such as psychology and psychiatry. We argue that psychoanalysis is wedded to a Kantian epistemology that is rigorously committed to modesty. The aim of the article is to illustrate how Freud's thinking was embedded within a Kantian epistemology. Even if he was not explicit, a prevailing Kantian philosophical discussion…
The intellectual in Auschwitz: Between vulnerability and resistance: (In memory of Keith Tester)
The significance of being an intellectual when taken prisoner and sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis is rarely discussed - instead, the importance of being either a Jew or a political prisoner (say, a German communist) is highlighted. By contrast, Jean Amery's recollections of being tortured and sent to Auschwitz concentrate on his self-understanding as an intellectual. What difference does the identity and outlook as an intellectual make …
Animal Lives and Why They Matter
This book engages with the changing ways in which we, as a society and culture, look upon and interact with animals, stressing how much animals differ among themselves. An invitation to appreciate the peculiar role of animals in telling important if uncomfortable truths about who we are and where we are heading – namely, towards a world so much poorer in cultural, moral, and biological diversity – as a result of the ongoing decimation of so many …
Krisebevissthet og medisinsk leseevne
Faget medisin har gradvis blitt mer avhengig av teknologi på måter som forsterker objektiveringen av mennesket. For pasienten handler dette i økende grad om å bli isolert fra en større kontekst og delt i fragmenter. Vi påpeker at denne utviklingen er beslektet med en distansering til, og tingliggjøring av, naturen. Denne utviklingens etiske implikasjoner fordrer på begge områder besinnelse, tenksomhet, ydmykhet og handlekraft. Vi foreslår derfor …
Ethics in the Anthropocene: The case for questioning anthropocentrism
Ikke-antroposentrisme og eurosentrisme – to sider av samme sak
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