Denne antologi er inspireret af den overbevisning, at den menneskelige tilværelses store spørgsmål, fx kærlighed og had, ansvar og krig, har betydning for os både som individer og som indbyggere i en global verden. Forfatterne drager disse filosofiske spørgsmål ind i den aktuelle politiske og etiske verdens virkelighed og overskrider derved grænsen mellem filosofisk tænkning og empiri, såvel som mellem filosofi og andre discipliner.

Forfatterne diskuterer f.eks. Arendt, Beauvoir, Derrida, Kierkegaard og Levinas i relation til nutidige problemstillinger, såsom kolonialisme, immigration og flygtningepolitik, folkemord og massevoldtægt, den israelsk-palæstinensiske konflikt, forholdet mellem selvet og den anden, mellem tvetydighed og ambivalens, og mellem ondskab og reaktionerne på ondskab.

Robin May Schott, ph.d. Forskningsprofessor ved Institut for Pædagogisk Filosofi, Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsskole. Hun har skrevet og redigeret flere bøger bl.a. Discovering Feminist Philosophy; Knowledge, Ethics, Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), Cognition and Eros: A Critique of the Kantian Paradigm (Beacon Press, 1988; Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), (og som redaktør) Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil (Indiana University Press, 2007), Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant, såvel som flere artikler om krig, seksuel vold og ondskabsproblematikken.

Kirsten Klercke, mag.art i filosofi. Er ekstern lektor på Københavns Universitet og har været tilknyttet Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscentret. Hun har skrevet flere artikler om Kierkegaard, deriblandt Either-Or? Contradiction and Subjectivity in The Postscript i Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2005 (de Gruyter, 2005) og Philosofiske Smuler i Den udødelige Kierkegaard læst værk for værk (C.A. Reitzel, 2005).


English
This anthology is inspired by the conviction that the big questions of human existence, including matters of love and hate, responsibility and war, matter to us both as individuals and as citizens of a global order. Hence, these questions ought to matter to philosophers as well.

In exploring these questions, the authors follow the ethical turn in philosophy, which transgresses the boundaries between philosophical thought and empirical existence, as well as between philosophy and other disciplines.

The central themes of the anthology focus on the relation between self and other, between ambiguity and ambivalence, and between the problem of evil and responses to it. The authors discuss these themes in relation to concrete issues in the present, including colonialism, immigration and national policies towards refugees, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, genocide, and mass rape.

The contributors to this anthology, who come from a variety of national backgrounds, work in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and Holocaust studies.

Robin May Schott, Ph.D. is Research Professor in the department of Philosophy of Education at the Danish University of Education. She is the author of Discovering Feminist Philosophy; Knowledge, Ethics, Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), Cognition and Eros: A Critique of the Kantian Paradigm (Beacon Press, 1988; Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), and editor of Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil (Indiana University Press, 2007), Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997). She has published numerous articles on the issues of war and sexual violence, and on the problem of evil.

Kirsten Klercke, M.A. in Philosophy. External lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. Previously affiliated to the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center. She is the author of several articles about Kierkegaard, including Either-Or? Contradiction and Subjectivity in The Postscript in Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2005 (de Gruyter, 2005) and Philosofiske Smuler in Den udødelige Kierkegaard læst værk for værk (C.A. Reitzel, 2005).