Øjvind Larsen

Lektor , Dr. Phil. & Ph.d.
Øjvind Larsen

Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi

Porcelænshaven 18B
DK-2000 Frederiksberg

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Øjvind Larsen’s topics are first of all ethics, political philosophy and moral sociology. Throughout his career, he has studied ethical problems from many perspectives. He started as a theologian where his main interest was the ethical consequences of Christianity from an existentialist perspective. Influenced by the social and political movements in 68, his scope changed to a social perspective and here he found it difficult, not to say impossible to sustain this new perspective on the grounds of a theological justification. Strongly influenced by Marx’s theories on politics, economy and history, he went on with studies in sociology and history. In the end, this Marxist perspective became a cul-de-sac and therefore it was a help to study Max Weber’s sociological theory and especially his studies of the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. This became Larsen’s way to a new perspective because Weber could explain the rationalization and the modernization of society not only as a process of change in the production relations but also as a change in the horizon of understanding of social relations and society.

Primære forskningsområder

Ethics
Political philosophy
Sociology

Udvalgte publikationer

‘Die Versprachlichung des Sakralen: The Transformation of the Authority of the Sacred into Secular Political Deliberation in Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action’, in: Nordicum-Mediterraneum 6 (1), 2011, http://nome.unak.is, ISSN1670 - 6242.
‘Dissent in Communicative Ethics and Political Philosophy’, i: Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, Vol. 44, 2009 Museum Tusculanum Forlag, Copenhagen 2011.
The Right to Dissent – The Critical Principle in Discourse Ethics and Deliberative Democracy, Museum Tusculanum Publishers, Copenhagen 2009
‘The Ethical Demand in a Global Perspective - A Response to Bauman’, i: Svend Andersen & Kees van Kooten Niekerk (ed.), Concern for the Other, The University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana 2008
Paideia - den personlige dannelse som hermeneutisk projekt i de pædagogiske institutioner, i: Social Kritik 116, København 2008
‘Fra Krig til Humanitær Intervention: Kants Evige Fred som Realistisk Utopi’, i: Krigsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 136. Årgang, nr. 3, oktober 2007.
Modern Reflexive Leadership, in: Mikael Carleheden & Michael Hviid Jacobsen (eds.), The Transformation of Modernity: Aspects of the Past, Present and Future of an Era. Ashgate, Aldershot 2001.
Administration, Ethics and Democracy, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot 2000.
Imaginary Democracy, in: Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, p.31-54, Volume 33, Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 1998.
Ethik und Demokratie, Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1990.