Carsten Pallesen

Primary fields of research

Language, reflection and religion; (Biblical) hermeneutics; christology and deconstruction; Subjectivity, sociality and (post)modernity; Studies in H.-G. Gadamer, P. Ricoeur, N.Luhmann, S. Kierkegaard, F. Nietzsche, G.W.F. Hegel, W. Shakespeare, M. Luther; Phenomenology of recognition and the theology of confession from St. Augustine  and Luther to Hegel and M. Foucault; contemporary interpretations of the (Western) theological legacy in continental philosophy (C. Malabou; R.Comay, J.-L. Nancy, G. Agamben); The art of reading and theology in the works of G. Bader.

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Carsten Pallesen

Date of Birth: May 23, 1956

Place of Birth: Bylderup, Denmark

Education and Academic Employment

1988 Master in Theology, University of Copenhagen

1989 Postgraduate Fellowship, Department of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology

1993 Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen

1997 Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, Faculty of Theology

2010 Dr.theol., University of Copenhagen

Administrative Posts

2007- deputy of Department for Systematic Theology

2014- Head of PhD.School

2014- Head of PhD-board

2014 - Member of the leader team

2014 - Member of the Research board

Other Academic Activities

2013-Editorial Advisory Board Critical Research on Religion

Publications (partial list)

Current research

The Nicene concept of 'homoousion' in contemporary philosophical interpretation of the theological legacy.

The concept of sin and singularity in Søren Kierkegaard (the singular individual as the singular individual) in the persective of the Nicene formula (hommousion) for the identity of the divine Trinity.

"Metonymic" theology as guidelines and buildingblocks for systematic theology with reference to G. Bader, M. Luther, J.-L. Nancy and Ph. Stoellger.

The purloined ladder/letter: Studies in Hegel and Kierkegaar's Climacus' writings in the light of the debate over A.E. Poe's "The Purloined Letter" between J. Lacan and J. Derrida.

Studies in the Northern Principle III: Deflections of the principle of subjectivity in current receptions of the double legacy of the Lutheran reformation and the Enlightenment: Shakespeares Hamlet as reflection of the Northern Principle and its paradoxes in Hegel and in contemporary Hegel studies (R. Comay).

Phenomenology of recognition and theology of confession (Augstine, Hegel, J. Derrida)

Short presentation

Christology and deconstruction, (Biblical) hermeneutics; subjectivity and modernity; Protestantism and German Idealism; Luther and the Lutheran Reformation. Studies in P. Ricoeur, S. Kierkegaard, G.W.F. Hegel, W.Shakespeare. Phenomenology of recognition and theology of confession.