Academic interests
My academic interests are German Idealism, Critical Theory, and Political Theology. I hold a MA in Philosophy from IFIKK at the Faculty of Humanities (University of Oslo). My thesis was titled: “‘Reich Gottes auf Erden: das ist die letzte Bestimmung des Menschen.’ A defense of a restricted view and interreligious reading of Kant’s notion of the kingdom of God in Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloβen Vernunft.”* In this work, I drew on both German- and English-language Kant scholarship on the subject—two largely separate fields—and also based my approach on Jürgen Habermas’s reading of Kant as a post-metaphysical thinker in the 2000s, particularly in light of Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie (2019).
Besides this, I am interested in G. W. F. Hegel, Slavoj Zizek, Mark Fisher, Theodor Adorno, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Carl Schmitt, René Girard, and Jan Assmann.
PhD project
The late Bruno Latour underwent an intellectual shift, from being a Hobbesian empirical philosopher, to turning towards a Schmittian political ecotheology. His late works Facing Gaia (2015) and If We Lose the Earth, We Lose Our Souls (2022) contains heavy discussions of political theologians such as Carl Schmitt, Jan Assmann, and Eric Voegelin. His early critique of dualistic modern thinking in We Have Never Been Modern turns into a Voegelinian critique of secular and religious thinking in modernity as infused with Gnosticism, undermining what he considers to be the ecological and epistemological fruits of our Christian and intellectual heritage in the West. He turns to Pope Francis as a figure whose integral ecology pleas for such a shift. This doctoral dissertation seeks to unpack the underresearched discussions the late Bruno Latour engaged in, presenting a reinterpretation of his late thinking as a political (eco)theology of complex modernity. In his engagement with figures such as Pope Francis, Jan Assmann, Eric Voegelin, Carl Schmitt, and Karl Marx, Latour’s late work contains unrealized fruits for tackling the contradictions of current politics facing upsurging climatic and societal crises. The current endeavour seeks to pluck and present these fruits, actualizing Latour’s later phase through the disciplines of political theology and philosophy of religion, and the turn in his thinking towards discussing heavily with the political-theological intellectual tradition of the 20th and 21st Century.
Courses taught
- Writing mentor and research assistant at the Academic Writing Center (Fall 2022–Fall 2022)
- Group instructor in FIL1005 – Introduction to the History of Philosophy up to 1800 (Fall 2023)
- Group instructor in FIL1003 – Introduction to Ethics (Spring 2024)
- Teaching assistant in EXPHIL03 (Fall 2022–Fall 2024)
Positions held
- Editor of Filosofisk supplement (Spring 2022–Spring 2024)
- Filosofisk supplement #2/22: FILM- OG BOKNUMMER (Film and Book Issue)
- Filosofisk supplement #3/22: RELIGION
- Filosofisk supplement #1/23: TEGN I TIDEN (Signs of the Times)
- Filosofisk supplement #2–3/23: DEN ANDRE (The Other)
- Filosofisk supplement #1/24: KJÆRLIGHET (Love)
- Editorial board member of St. Olav – katolsk tidsskrift for religion og kultur
- Former editorial coordinator of St. Olav tidsskrift – katolsk tidsskrift for religion og kultur
- Editorial board member of Salongen – Nettidskrift for filosofi og idéhistorie
- Monthly contributor to Samtiden
- Freelance critic at Ny Tid
- Former columnist for the cultural newspaper Subjekt