Aarhus University, Aulaen, Building 1412 - Nordre Ringgade 4, 8000 Aarhus C
11.00 – 13.00 Registration
13.00 – 13.15 Opening remarks by Associate Prof. Anders Moe Rasmussen, Aarhus University
13.15 – 14.30 George Pattison: “Protestant Mysticism and the Origins of Existential Philosophy”
14.30 – 15.45 Dorthe Jørgensen: “The Intermediate World. A key Concept in Beautiful Thinking”
Coffee
16.00– 17.15 Carsten Pallesen: “The Purloined Ladder: Hegel´s Spirit and Hegel´s Ladder in Johannes Climacus´ Writings”
17.30 Reception
9.30 – 10.45 Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: “Mystical Bodies? Is there a Place for a Non Cartesian Type of Community in the Protestant and Existential Traditions?”
Coffee
11.00 – 12.15 Hans Hauge: “From the Decay of Lying via Fear of Flying to the Fear of Lying: Karl Ove Knausgård's Struggle against Autofiction”
Lunch
13.15 – 14.30 Anders Moe Rasmussen. “Existential Thought Reconsidered: German Idealism as Existentialism”
14.30 – 15.45 Guido Kreis: “Absolute Spirit: Hegel on the Substantial Dimension of Human Existence”
Coffee
16.15 – 17.30 Daniel Whistler: “The Critique of the Critique of Transcendence. Existentialist Readings of Schelling”
9.30 – 10.45 Hartmut Rosa: “The Mute World and the Capacity to Answer. The Resonance-Conception of Human Existence and the Ambivalences of Protestantism”
Coffee
11.00 – 12.15 Uffe Østergaard. “Max Weber´s Thesis of Protestantism. The Spirit of Capitalism and the Protestant Heritage of Existential Thought”
12.15 Closing remarks
