mkmpp
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Mads Peter
Karlsen
Assistant professor
,
PhD
Room:
POR/18.B-2.157
Tel:
+4538153626
E-mail:
mpk.mpp@cbs.dk
354476

Presentation
Educational background
I am trained in theology and contemporary continental philosophy at Department of Systematic Theology (University of Copenhagen), where I also did my PhD.
Current research
- I am interested in the interface and possible dialogue between theology and Freudian psychoanalysis. My research in this area is focused on subjectivity and ethics with the theological themes of original sin, neighbour love, confession and forgiveness as pivotal points.
- Within the field of political theology my research is mainly focused the recent attention towards theology among neo-Marxist philosophers, but I am also interested in questions concerning secularization and the conceptual influence of theology on modern social and political thought.
- Another research interest of mine is the development of psychoanalytical informed strategies for social and political analyses of power and identity with focus particularly on rituals, asceticism and belief.
Primary research areas
- Ethics
- Governmentality Studies
- Political Theology
- Philosophy of Religion
Curriculum Vitae
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/mkmpp
Selected publications
- Karlsen, M.P. “Towards a Kierkegaardian Retreating of the Political“, Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Vol. 24, Nr. 1, 375-392, 2019.
- Karlsen, M.P. Dødsdrift og næstekærlighed: Seks kapitler om teologi og psykoanalyse, Forlaget Eksistensen, København, 2018.
- Karlsen, M.P. “The Truth of Paul According to Alain Badiou”, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. 16, Nr. 3, s. 403-436, 2017.
- Karlsen M.P./Villadsen, K. “Health Promotion, Governmentality and the Challenges of Theorizing Pleasure and Desire”, Body and Society Vol. 22 (3), 3-30, 2016.
- Karlsen, M.P./Villadsen, K. ”Foucault, Maoism, Genealogy: The Influence of Political Militancy in Michel Foucault’s Thought”, New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture Vol. 37 (1): 91-117, 2015.
Publications List
Publications sorted by:
2020
Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen; Mads Peter Karlsen; René Rosfort / Arne Grøn's Existential Hermeneutics : Existence, Ethics and Religion.
In: Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, Vol. 53, 2020, p. 108-132
In: Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, Vol. 53, 2020, p. 108-132
Journal article > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen / At møde sig selv som en anden : Om identitet som problem.
In: Omtanke, No. 4, 6.2020, p. 21-27
In: Omtanke, No. 4, 6.2020, p. 21-27
Journal article
Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen / Confession
In: The Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology. ed. /Stefan Schwarzkopf. Abingdon : Routledge 2020, p. 36-46 (Routledge International Handbooks)
In: The Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology. ed. /Stefan Schwarzkopf. Abingdon : Routledge 2020, p. 36-46 (Routledge International Handbooks)
Book chapter > peer review
2019
Arne Grøn (Author) ; Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen (Editor) ; Mads Peter Karlsen (Editor) ; René Rosfort (Editor) / Filosofiske essays af Arne Grøn : Eksistentiel hermeneutik. Bind 1.
Frederiksberg : Eksistensen Akademisk 2019, 396 p.
Frederiksberg : Eksistensen Akademisk 2019, 396 p.
Anthology
Arne Grøn; Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen; Mads Peter Karlsen; René Rosfort / Indledning
In: Filosofiske essays af Arne Grøn: Eksistentiel hermeneutik. Bind 1. . ed. /Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen; Mads Peter Karlsen; René Rosfort. Frederiksberg : Eksistensen Akademisk 2019, p. 9-45
In: Filosofiske essays af Arne Grøn: Eksistentiel hermeneutik. Bind 1. . ed. /Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen; Mads Peter Karlsen; René Rosfort. Frederiksberg : Eksistensen Akademisk 2019, p. 9-45
Book chapter
Mads Peter Karlsen / Towards a Kierkegaardian Retreating of the Political
In: Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2019, p. 375-392
In: Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2019, p. 375-392
Journal article > peer review
2018
Mads Peter Karlsen / At være bundet ved sig selv : Om en parallel mellem psykoanalysens og kristendommens menneskesyn.
In: Lamella – Tidsskrift for teoretisk psykoanalyse, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2018
In: Lamella – Tidsskrift for teoretisk psykoanalyse, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2018
Journal article > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen / Dødsdrift og næstekærlighed : Seks kapitler om teologi og psykoanalyse hos Kierkegaard, Kafka, Freud og Lacan.
Frederiksberg : Eksistensen 2018, 173 p.
Frederiksberg : Eksistensen 2018, 173 p.
Book > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen / On Alain Badiou’s ‘Critique of Religion’
In: International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 79, No. 1-2, 2018, p. 36-59
In: International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 79, No. 1-2, 2018, p. 36-59
Journal article > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen; Bent Meier Sørensen; Kaspar Villadsen / The Boy on the Beach : The Photographic Event that Contested the Violence of European Governmentality.
In: Borderland Religion: Ambiguous Practices of Difference, Hope, and Beyond. . ed. /Daisy L. Machado; Bryan S. Turner; Trygve Wyller. Abingdon : Routledge 2018, p. 136-159 (Religion, Resistance, Hospitalities)
In: Borderland Religion: Ambiguous Practices of Difference, Hope, and Beyond. . ed. /Daisy L. Machado; Bryan S. Turner; Trygve Wyller. Abingdon : Routledge 2018, p. 136-159 (Religion, Resistance, Hospitalities)
Book chapter > peer review
2018
Mads Peter Karlsen / The Past 'Has' Us Before We 'Have' It : Inheriting Hereditary Sin?.
In: Hermeneutics and Negativism: Existential Ambiguities of Self-understanding. . ed. /Claudia Welz; René Rosfort. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck 2018, p. 53-68 (Religion in Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 95)
In: Hermeneutics and Negativism: Existential Ambiguities of Self-understanding. . ed. /Claudia Welz; René Rosfort. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck 2018, p. 53-68 (Religion in Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 95)
Book chapter > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen / “Stony Ground but not Entirely” : On the Metaphor of “Grace” in Alain Badiou.
In: Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, Vol. 72, No. 1, 6.2018, p. 30-50
In: Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology, Vol. 72, No. 1, 6.2018, p. 30-50
Journal article > peer review
2017
Mads Peter Karlsen / Arvesynden som anti-utopisme?
In: Religion, No. 3, 2017, p. 18-30
In: Religion, No. 3, 2017, p. 18-30
Journal article
Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen / Confession and the Economic Subject
Paper presented at Markets, Money and the Sacred, 2017
Paper presented at Markets, Money and the Sacred, 2017
Paper > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen / Det velafbalancerede subjekt : Sundhedsfremme, guvernmentalitet og spørgsmålet om nydelse og begær.
In: Sundhed og magt: Perspektiver på biopolitik og ledelsesteknologi. . ed. /Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen. København : Hans Reitzels Forlag 2017, p. 147-178
In: Sundhed og magt: Perspektiver på biopolitik og ledelsesteknologi. . ed. /Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen. København : Hans Reitzels Forlag 2017, p. 147-178
Book chapter > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen / Indledning
In: Sundhed og magt: Perspektiver på biopolitik og ledelsesteknologi. . ed. /Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen. København : Hans Reitzels Forlag 2017, p. 9-22
In: Sundhed og magt: Perspektiver på biopolitik og ledelsesteknologi. . ed. /Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen. København : Hans Reitzels Forlag 2017, p. 9-22
Book chapter > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen (Editor) ; Kaspar Villadsen (Editor) / Sundhed og magt : Perspektiver på biopolitik og ledelsesteknologi.
København : Hans Reitzels Forlag 2017, 337 p.
København : Hans Reitzels Forlag 2017, 337 p.
Anthology
Mads Peter Karlsen / The Truth of Paul According to Alaian Badiou
In: Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2017, p. 403-436
In: Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2017, p. 403-436
Journal article > peer review
2016
Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen / Health Promotion, Governmentality and the Challenges of Theorizing Pleasure and Desire
In: Body & Society, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2016, p. 3-30
In: Body & Society, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2016, p. 3-30
Journal article > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen / I begyndelsen var telefonen
In: Og teologi: Festskrift til Carsten Pallesen. . ed. /Mads Peter Karlsen; Lars Sandbeck. Frederiksberg : Eksistensen 2016, p. 215-234
In: Og teologi: Festskrift til Carsten Pallesen. . ed. /Mads Peter Karlsen; Lars Sandbeck. Frederiksberg : Eksistensen 2016, p. 215-234
Book chapter > peer review
2016
Mads Peter Karlsen; Lars Sandbeck / Indledning
In: Og teologi: Festskrift til Carsten Pallesen. . ed. /Mads Peter Karlsen; Lars Sandbeck. Frederiksberg : Eksistensen 2016, p. 7-12
In: Og teologi: Festskrift til Carsten Pallesen. . ed. /Mads Peter Karlsen; Lars Sandbeck. Frederiksberg : Eksistensen 2016, p. 7-12
Book chapter > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen (Editor) ; Lars Sandbeck (Editor) / Og teologi : Festskrift til Carsten Pallesen.
Frederiksberg : Eksistensen 2016, 350 p.
Frederiksberg : Eksistensen 2016, 350 p.
Anthology > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen / Trosbegrebet hos Slavoj Žižek
In: Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, No. 65, 2016, p. 38-56
In: Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, No. 65, 2016, p. 38-56
Journal article > peer review
2015
Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen / Foucault, Maoism, Genealogy : The Influence of Political Militancy in Michel Foucault's Thought.
In: New Political Science, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2015, p. 91-117
In: New Political Science, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2015, p. 91-117
Journal article > peer review
Mads Peter Karlsen; Kaspar Villadsen / Laughing for Real? : Humour, Management Power and Subversion.
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2015, p. 513-535
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2015, p. 513-535
Journal article > peer review
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2019
Mads Peter Karlsen; Carsten Mulnæs / Derfor er arvesynden værd at kæmpe for
In: Kristeligt Dagblad, 1.4.2019
In: Kristeligt Dagblad, 1.4.2019
Contribution to newspaper - Feature article
2015
Mads Peter Karlsen / Præsten, troen og de mange forventninger
In: Kristeligt Dagblad, 9.10.2015, p. 9
In: Kristeligt Dagblad, 9.10.2015, p. 9
Contribution to newspaper - Feature article
2017
Anmeldelse af: Sundhed og Magt - Perspektiver på biopolitik og ledelsesteknologi
30/11/2017 // Dansk Sociologi, 28. årgang, nr. 2 (2017), s. 93-96 // Peter Triantafillou
Research Projects
Outside activities
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