Frederik-Emil Friis JakobsenPhD student
About me
Ph.D. fellow in History of Ideas, cand.mag. in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen, and MA in Philosophy from the European Graduate School. Former guest lecturer at Alberta University of the Arts.
My dissertation, tentatively titled “The Art of Politics”, centers on the concept of common sense or sensus communis, its prominence as a political concept in Hannah Arendt's work and in contemporary political theory and philosophy, not least through Arendt’s undeniable influence there, and finally whether the concept reveals anything about the relationship between politics and aesthetics.
Research
Selected publications:
2023. Arkivfeber, a Danish translation of and preface to Jacques Derrida’s Mal d’archive, Forlaget Aleatorik, Copenhagen
2022. “The Lie That Makes Us Realize – Facts and Truth in the Work of Art” in the edited volume Aesthetic Literacy, Mont Publishing, Melbourne
2021. “The art of the good life” in Inscriptions, vol. 4, no.1. Tankebanen Forlag, Moss
2021. “Mimesis and Metaphor – Aristotle and the Poetry of Science”, Journal of Media, Cognition and Communication, vol. 15 and 16
2021. “Erkendelsens økonomi” (”The Economy of Knowing”) in Paradoks – Tidsskrift for teori og filosofi
2021. “At gribe det ugribelige – Emmanuel Levinas og negativ teologi” (”Grasping the ungraspable – Emmanuel Levinas and Negative Theology”) in Tidsskriftet Studenterkredsen
2021. “Zidanes melankoli”, a Danish translation of and introduction to Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s La mélancolie de Zidane, in MÅL – Tanker om fodbold, no.3 (MÅL – Thoughts on Football), Copenhagen Contemporary
2020. “Injustice and Infinity: Reflections on Two Negatives in Emmanuel Levinas’ Thinking about Knowledge” in the edited volume Negative Knowledge, Basler Studien zur Philosophie, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, Tübingen