Arne Grøn

Professor

'Afdelinger', Department of Systematic Theology
Købmagergade 44-46
1150 København K.

Office: 359
Phone: +45 353-23683
Phone (Reception desk): +45 353-28680
E-mail: ag@teol.ku.dk

Current research

Arne Grøn is affiliated with:

Department for Systematic Theology
Købmagergade 44-46
1150 Copenhagen K.
Location: Vær. 353
Phone +45 353-23678
e-mail: ag@teol.ku.dk

Center for Subjectivity Research
Njalsgade 140-142
2300 Copenhagen S.
Location: 25.5.27
Phone: +45 353-28691
e-mail: agn@hum.ku.dk

• Within the overall project of a hermeneutical philosophy of religion I am mainly working on the following subprojects: 1. reformulating criticisms of religion and reinterpreting the notion of transcendence. 2. religion and (in)humanity.
• Within the overall project of a hermeneutical theory of subjectivity and selfhood I am currently working on the following studies: 1. further clarifying the notion of subjectivity as self-relation. 2. subjectivity, interiority, and exteriority, in particular in Kierkegaard and Levinas. 3. the relation of (self)understanding and the situated character of selfhood.
• Combining insights from studies in philosophy of religion and theory of subjectivity I am working on a project entitled Ambiguities of Subjectivity. The project focuses both on human ambiguities as reflected in religions and on the notion of ambiguity as a key to understanding human subjectivity.
• Currently I am also engaged in studies on phenomenology of subjectivity in Kierkegaard and phenomenology of spirit in Hegel. The aim is primarily to further clarify the notion of subjectivity as relational and reinterpreting the issue of subjectivity and transcendence.
• I am currently also working on a project entitled Ethics of Vision, primarily discussing Kierkegaard (love, self, the other) and Hegel (recognition, self, the other). The aim is further to unfold the implications for understanding the relation of self and normativity and the relation of self, emotions and understanding.

Selected publications

• Grøn, A 2010, ' Beyond?: Horizon, Immanence, and Transcendence '. in J Bornemark & H Ruin (eds), Phenomenology and Religion: New Frontiers. Södertörn University, pp. 223-241. Södertörn Philosophical Studies, vol. 8

• Grøn, A 2011, ' Subjectivity, Passion and Passivity '. in IU Dalferth & M Rodgers (eds), Passion and Passivity: Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2009. vol. Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, pp. 143-155. Religion in Philosophy and Theology, vol. 61

• Grøn, A 2011, ' Homo subiectus: Zur zweideutigen Subjektivität des Menschen '. in IU Dalferth & A Hunziker (eds), Seinkönnen: Der Mensch zwischen Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, pp. 19-33. Religion in Philosophy and Theology, vol. 54

• Grøn, A 2010, ' Self-Givenness and Self-Understanding: Kierkegaard and the Question of Phenomenology '. in J Hanson (ed.), Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist: An Experiment. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, pp. 79-97.

• Brudholm, T & Grøn, A 2011, ' Picturing Forgiveness After Atrocity ' Studies in Christian Ethics , vol 24, no. 2, pp. 159-70.

• Grøn, A & Brudholm, T 2011, ' "Nachdenken" '. in M Zolkos (ed.), On Jean Améry : Philosophy of the Catastrophe . 1 edn, Lexington Books, New York.

• Grøn, A & Welz, C (eds) 2010, Trust, Sociality, Selfhood . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen. Religion in Philosophy and Theology, no. 52

• Grøn, A 2009, ' The Limit of Ethics - the Ethics of the Limit '. in T Brudholm & T Cushman (eds), The Religious Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 38-59.

• Grøn, A 2008, The Concept of Anxiety in Søren Kierkegaard . 1. udgave edn, Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia.

• Grøn, A , Damgaard, I & Overgaard, S (eds) 2007, Subjectivity and Transcendence . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, Germany. Religion in Philosophy and Theology, no. 25

• Grøn, A 2006, ' Im Horizont des Unendlichen. Religionskritik nach Nietzsche ' Kritik der Religion. , no. Mohr Siebeck, 2006, pp. 145-162.

• Grøn, A 1994, Begrebet angst hos Søren Kierkegaard . Gyldendal, København.

• Grøn, A 1997, Subjektivitet og negativitet: Kierkegaard . Gyldendal, København.

• Grøn, A 2002, ' Zeit und Transzendenz '. in Der Sinn der Zeit. Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist, pp. 40-52.

• Grøn, A 2003, ' Imagination and Subjectivity ' Theologische Literaturzeitung , no. 128/7-8, pp. 717-726.

• Grøn, A 2004, ' Self and identity '. in The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam-Philadelphia, pp. 123-156.

• Grøn, A 2004, ' The Embodied Self: Reformulating the Existential Difference in Kierkegaard ' Journal of Consciousness Studies , no. 11/10-11, pp. 26-43.