Bioactive metabolites in crops, diets and human samples

The objective of the PhD-project is to characterize bioactive metabolites, such as polyphenols, in selected crops and investigate the influence of different organic farming systems on the ability of crops to synthesize bioactive compounds with health promoting effects. The study includes two organic and one conventional farming system and is part of the OrgTrace project (content, bioavailability and health effects of trace elements and bioactive components in organic agricultural systems), where harvest takes place in autumn 2007 and 2008

On Occasion of the Public Defence of the Dissertation: Ethics of Dizziness: On the Relationship between Subjectivity and Inter-subjectivity in Kierkegaard's Authorship, illuminated from the Perspective of dialogical Philosophy

On Occasion of the Public Defence of the Dissertation: Ethics of Dizziness: On the Relationship between Subjectivity and Inter-subjectivity in Kierkegaard's Authorship, illuminated from the Perspective of dialogical Philosoph

Der Gegenstand der Pflicht bei Kant und Kierkegaard

Der Gegenstand der Pflicht bei Kant und Kierkegaar

Giveren, gaven, modtageren og gensidigheden

In this article we will read Kierkegaard in continuation of theun-going debate about the economy of the gift. I will argue that Kierkegaard’snotion of love as a three-part-relation in many ways exceedsthe insights in the economy of the gift that Marcel Mauss gained holdof in his anthropologic studies in 1925. Insights which have led to anun-going debate about the “pureness” of the gift between philosopherslike Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas and Jean-Luc Marion andin recent theological studies as the ones by Bo Holm og Niels HenrikGregersen. In what follows I will put attention to how Kierkegaard inhis upbuilding discourses and in Works of Love describes love as a specialmutual relation between the lover (the giver) the beloved (the receiver)and love itself (the gift). Hereby I wish to show that Kierkegaard’s notionof love contains a deliberate contribution to the recent debate of theeconomy of the gift

Kierkegaard, Luther, troen, tilegnelsen og samvittigheden

This article first deals with the relation between reason and faith, arguing that Søren Kierkegaard viewed Martin Luther as a rather “undialectical” thinker in his understanding of faith, since Luther, according to Kierkegaard, failed to acknowledge that reason and a possible outrage is the first step of faith, to be followed by a passionate devotion that Kierkegaard calls a “second immediacy”, which is another word for faith. Secondly, the article addresses Kierkegaard’s more positive view of Luther with regard to the appropriation of Christianity bythe individual. Thirdly, Kierkegaard’s, Luther’s, Nietzsche’s and Hannah Arendt’s views on the consciousness are discussed