Sune Frølund

Sune Frølund
Aarhus University | AU · Department of Education

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From Laboratory Studies to the Anthropocene. How Bruno Latour almost finally accepted (a concept of) nature Geologists have suggested to name the present epoch the “Anthropocene” to indicate that human activities now have reached an impact on the environment that rivals the impact from natural occurrences like soil erosion, lunar orbits, plate tect...
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The concept of nature is under attack from a number of contemporary researchers on ecology. This seems alarming in light of the current struggle to establish the anthropogenic, i.e., non-natural origin of climate change and mass extinction. This paper selects three examples of ‘nature denial’ by influential writers—Steven Vogel, Timothy Morton, and...
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Over the last 30 years quite a few writers have attacked the concept of nature as either ambiguous, meaningless, nostalgic or conservative (Foucault, Rorty, Latour, Descola etc.). Common for them have been their basis in some variant of constructivism or postmodernism. The attacks have appeared simultaneously with a slowly growing concern over our...
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The paper explores Gernot Böhme’s attempt to transform the concept of atmosphere into an aesthetical concept of the natural environment and follows his effort to outline a phenomenology of the weather based on this aesthetics. Böhme’s original project, prompted by a growing environmental concern, was to develop new forms of knowledge of nature to c...
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1. Hvad er en moralsk handling?Arbejdet med moralen volder Kant besvær. Men han trøster sig med, at det ikke er slet så påkrævet som arbejdet med den teo­retiske fornuft - altså det arbejde han nedfældede i Kritik der reinen Vernunft
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The paper explores Gernot Böhme’s interpretation of the concept of atmosphere as an aesthetical concept of the natural environment, especially of the weather. Böhme takes over the concept of atmosphere from Hermann Schmitz’ body phenomenology in which human feelings are considered to be spatial atmospheres. Böhme integrates atmospheres into his phe...
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Existentialism and postmodernism have both abandoned the idea of a human nature. Also, the idea of naturalness as a value for education has been targeted as a blind for conservative ideology. There are, however, good reasons to re-establish a sound concept of human naturalness. First of all, the concept does not seem to have disappeared from common...
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p> The dissertation was initially motivated by the contemporary problems many countries face with decreasing public interest in science, and a subsequent decrease in the number of young people choosing science and technology studies. It even seems to be the case, that the more a nation is dependent on science and technology, the weaker the status...
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Educational philosopher Wilfred Carr claims that the formation of philosophy of education in accordance with the theory-centered paradigm of modernist philosophy is responsible for the miserable fact that educational practitioners take no interest in philosophy of education. A real contemporary philosophy of education, Carr suggests, would give up...

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