C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
S V E R R E R A F F N S Ø E
APRIL 2013Born: 7th of July 1959
Marital status: Married, five children. Nationality: Danish
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT 2012-2015 2008-2012 2010-2011 SINCE 2006 2006-2011 2005-2006: 2004-2006: SINCE MARCH 2003: 2002-2003: 2002: 2000-2001: 1999-2002: 1997-1999: 1996:
Research director, HUMAN – The Human Turn, Research
programme funded by Velux Fonden
Research director, Management of Self-Management. Research
programme funded by Velux Fonden.
Visiting professor Linköping University
Editor-in-chief Foucault Studies.
Head of the research group Management Philosophy at the
Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School.
5-month research fellowship at the Danish University of Education
Director of the Board of Studies. BAsc & Msc programme in Business
Administration and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School.
Professor at the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy,
Copenhagen Business School.
1-year research fellowship at The Danish Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities, Copenhagen. Released for work on research project “The Logic of the Welfare Society in a Historical-Philosophical light”.
Awarded Dr. Phil. (Danish ‘Habilitation’) May 31, University of
Roskilde.
Director of the Board of Studies at the Department of Philosophy and
Science Studies, University of Roskilde.
Associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Science
Studies, University of Roskilde.
Assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Science
Studies, University of Roskilde.
Research assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and
1993-1996: 1990-1993: 1989: 1987: 1985:
Awarded research scholarship at the Department of Philosophy,
Educational Science and Rhetoric, University of Copenhagen. Funded by The Carlsberg Foundation.
PhD-scholarship at the Department of Philosophy, Univ. of
Copenhagen.
Awarded gold medal at The University of Aarhus for prize dissertation
“A philosophical discussion of the concept of the autonomous work of art in the aesthetic theories of Heidegger and Adorno” (350 pages). Mag.art. in philosophy, University of Aarhus
M.A. in philosophy, University of Aarhus
B.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Literature, University of Aarhus
RECENT EXTERNAL GRANTS
5.6 mio. DKR from Velux Fonden. Research programme HUMAN –
The Human Turn (2012-15), CBS
6.4 mio. DKR from Velux Fonden. Research programme Management of
Self-Management (2008-11), CBS.
4.8 mio. DKR from Arbejdsmiljøforskningsfonden. Research
programme Trivsel, Produktivitet og Selvledelse (2008-11), CBS, NFA, DTU.
50.000 from Det Frie Forskningsråd. Kultur og Kommunikation to
support the journal Foucault Studies 2013-15
50.000 DKR from Det Frie Forskningsråd. Kultur og Kommunikation
to support the journal Foucault Studies 2010-12.
50.000 DKR from Det Frie Forskningsråd. Samfund og Erhverv to
support the journal Foucault Studies 2010-12.
135.000 DKR from Det Frie Forskningsråd. Kultur og Kommunikation
and Det Frie Forskningsråd. Samfund og Erhverv to support the journal Foucault Studies 2008-10.
RESEARCH
Welfare, Management and Governance. The Complexity and History of Social Ties. Analysis of Dispositives. Social Philosophy and Cultural Theory. The Philosophy of Law. Recent French and German Philosophy.
Philosophical Aesthetics. Author of twelve books in these and related areas.
RECENTLY COMPLETED AND CURRENT WRITINGS
Raffnsøe & Miyazaki, H.: “Hope and Trust in the New: The Prospects of
Freedom as a Social Bond”, in Lisberg, S. & Pahuus, A.: Trust and Hope – Anthropology and Philosophy in Dialogue. Oxford: Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2012.
Lopdrup-Hjort, T. & Raffnsøe, S.: ”Udenfor er afgørende. Værdiskabelsens
Thorup, M; Hansen, E. & Larsen, T.V.: Kapitalismens ansigter, Aarhus: Philosophia : 56-74.
Sverre Raffnsøe, Alan Rosenberg, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Sven Opitz,
Chloë Taylor, Jens Erik Kristensen, Ditte Vilstrup Holm: ”Editorial”,
Foucault and Race. Foucault Studies, No 12, November 2011: 1-2.
“Kritikkens kritiske stilling i kritikkens tidsalder”, in Kjældgaard, L.H.
& Stjernfelt, F. (ed.): Kritik 200 – et jubilæum, København: Gyldendals Forlag: 38-48, 2011.
“The Five Obstructions: Experiencing the human side of enterprise”,
Governing Work Through Self-Management, Ephemera, volume 11(2): 176-18, 2011.
Sverre, Raffnsøe, Jørgen Leth: “Tripping Up The Perfect”, in Governing Work
Through Self-Management,Ephemera, volume 11(2): 199-203, 2011.
Sverre Raffnsøe, Pia Bramming, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Dan Kärreman,
Charlotta Levay, Michael Pedersen, Jens Rennstam, André Spicer and Sverre Spoelstra: “Management of selfmanagement”, in Governing Work Through Self-Management, Ephemera, volume 11(2): 212-24, 2011.
Vallentin, S. & Thygesen, N.T. & Raffnsøe, S.: “Tillid og magt”, in
Svendsen, G.L.H. & Hegedahl, P. (ed.): Tillid. Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag: 83-98, 2011.
“Virtual serial speed-dating - 5 Q's to the professor”. Copenhagen
MPP Update week 4: 2011: Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS.
Raffnsøe, S.; Gudmand-Høyer, M. & Sørensen, M.: Foucault.
Studienhandbuch. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag (398 p.), 2011. English translation submitted to Palgrave.
Sverre Raffnsøe, Alan Rosenberg, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Jens Erik Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Chloë Taylor, Ditte Vilstrup Holm: ”Editorial”,
Foucault and Pragmatism, Foucault Studies, No 11, February 2011: 1-2.
“Les implications d’événement” MPP Working Paper No. 1/2010, ISBN:
87-91839-32-7, ISSN: 1396-2817 (17 p.).
Sverre Raffnsøe, Alan Rosenberg, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Jens
Erik Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Chloë Taylor, Ditte Vilstrup Holm: ”Editorial”, Foucault Studies, No 9, September 2010: 1-4.
“The obligation of self-management: The social bonds of freedom”, in
Petersen, Tronier (ed.): Villum foundation & Velux Foundation, Søborg 2010: 56-63, 2010.
Sverre Raffnsøe, Alan Rosenberg, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Jens Erik
Kristensen, Sven Opitz, Chloë Taylor, Ditte Vilstrup Holm: ”Editorial”, Foucault Studies, No 8, February 2010: 1-4.
“Qu’est-ce qu’un dispositif?”. Symposium. Canadian Journal of Continental
Philosophy. Volume 12.1, 2008.
”A new beginning, and a continuation”. Foucault Studies 5, 2008. Johansen, Andersen, Mikkelsen, Pass, Raffnsøe: ”Controlling Sickness
Absence”. Elsevier. Health Policy 86 (2008), 109-118.
Raffnsøe, Vallentin & Thyge Thygesen: Tilliden & Magten – om at lede og skabe
the Month, August 2008. Second edition January 2009.
Raffnsøe, Sørensen and Gudmand-Høyer: Foucault, 391 pages. Copenhagen:
Samfundslitteratur, 2008. Second edition 2009.
Raffnsøe: Nietzsches „Genealogie der Moral“, 160 pages. Paderborn: Wilhelm
Fink Verlag, Series UTB, 2007.
French Philosophy in the 20th Century. Completed in 2003 in co-authorship
with Rendtorff and Diderichsen: Contemporary Philosophy: French Philosophy (Politikens Vor Tids filosofi. Fransk filosofi, 400 pages.).
The current social bond and the history of social cohesion in Western
Europe. Coexistence without common sense I-III (937 pages, published by Akademisk Forlag). Published and defended in public debate for Dr. Phil. (Danish ‘Habilitation’) 2002. Published with $ 14169/87,000 kroner in funding from The Danish Council for Research into the Humanities.
MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIC ORGANISATIONS AND EDITORSHIP OF JOURNALS
Editor-in-chief Foucault Studies.
Member of the board of the Danish Philosophical Society.
Member of editorial board and referee at Sats, Nordic Journal of Philosophy. Referee of
Ephemera Organization
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine Distinction
The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics Danish Sociology
Slagmark
Contributor to The Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas. Associate of the Centre for Public Organisation and Leadership (Center for
Offentlig Organisation og Styring), Copenhagen.
Associate of the ‘Centre Michel Foucault’, Paris.
PH.D. SUPERVISION
Currently supervisor for 6 Ph.D. students at CBS
o Marius Gudmand-Høyer (main supervisor) o Thomas Presskorn (main supervisor)
o Kristian Gylling Olesen (second supervisor) S V E R R E R A F F N S Ø E M A T T H Æ U S G A D E 6 1 . T H , 1 6 6 6 C O P E N H A G E N V , D E N M A R K E - M A I L : S R A . L P F @ C B S . D K T E L E P H O N E 3 8 1 5 2 8 8 5 / 3 3 3 1 9 1 2 1 W W W . C B S . D K / D E P A R T M E N T S / M P P / S T A F F W W W . H U M A N I T I E S . D K / E N G L I S H / F E L L O W S / 2 0 0 2 - 2 0 0 3 / S V E R R E _ R A F F N S Ø E . H T M L W W W . R U C . D K / F I L O / P E R S O N A L E / V I D E N S K A B E L I G T P E R S O N A L E
o Christiane Mossin (main supervisor)
o Kevin Turner (main supervisor)
o Ann-Christina Lange Pederson (second supervisor)
Recent supervision:
o Michael Pedersen (main supervisor, completed 2009)
o Rasmus Johnsen (main supervisor, completed 2009)
o Anders Raastrup Kristensen (main supervisor, completed 2010)
Extensive supervisory experience
External examiner for doctoral candidates, including
o Mathias Møl Dalsgaard: Det protestantiske selv, AU 2012.
o Stuart Pethick: The Immanent Refrain: Affectivity and Philosophy After Spinoza And Nietzsche, AU 2011
o Anders Fogh Jensen: Projektsamfundet, KU 2007.
o Adam Diderichsen: Genèse de la rationalité esthétique, RUC 2007/08
(Habilitation).
o Alexander Carnera: Performancesamfund, CBS 2008 (Habilitation) o Karen Lisa Salmonsen: Beåndet ledelse, CBS 2002
