Camilla Susanne Flodin

Førsteamanuensis Institutt for religion, filosofi og historie

E-post: camilla.s.flodin@uia.no
Telefon: +47 38 14 10 40
Mobiltelefon: +47 46 50 87 83
Kontor: 51102 (Universitetsveien 51, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

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Bakgrunn og erfaring

Min forskning fokuserar Theodor W. Adornos estetiska teori, i synnerhet hans resonemang om förhållandet mellan konst, natur och djur. På senare år har jag också forskat om tidig tysk romantik och idealism, framför allt Hölderlin och Schelling. Jag har varit gästforskare vid Department of Philosophy, Columbia University (2010) och vid Faculty of English, University of Cambridge (2014). Jag har också varit forskare och lärare vid Filosofiska institutionen och Centrum för genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet (2014–2017) samt vid Södertörns högskola, Stockholm (2012, 2013 och 2018–2021).

Undervisning

V2026:

FIL203/FIL400 – Applied Philosophy: Current Issues

REL500 – Masteroppgaveseminar

Tidigare:

FIL203 – Anvendt filosofi: aktuelle temaer

REL119 – Etikk

FIL400 – Anvendt filosofi: Mennesket og teknologi

FIL402 – Teknologiens etikk

REL412 – Teori og metode

REL500 – Masteroppgaveseminar

Forskning

estetik
Adorno
Schelling
Hölderlin
relationen mellan konst och natur
relationen mellan filosofi och poesi
naturbegreppet
kritiska djurstudier

Utvalda publikationer

Böcker

Art, Nature, and Self-formation in the Age of Goethe (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024) (medredaktörer: Gerad Gentry och Mattias Pirholt)
Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2021), Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (medredaktörer Karl Axelsson och Mattias Pirholt)
Att uttrycka det undanträngda: Theodor W. Adorno om konst, natur och sanning, diss. Uppsala universitet (Göteborg: Glänta produktion, 2009)

Vetenskapliga artiklar och bokkapitel

"Aesthetic Unity", Journal of Adorno Studies vol. 1, no 1 (2025), 70–72
"Adorno on Nature and Animals" (publicerad online 2025) i The Oxford Handbook of Adorno, red. Henry Pickford and Martin Shuster, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190932527.013.28
"Beautiful Creatures: Schiller and Goethe on Animal Freedom", i Art, Nature, and Self-formation in the Age of Goethe, red. Gerard Gentry, Mattias Pirholt och Camilla Flodin (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024), 165–179
"In the Name of the Rhinoceros: Expression beyond Human Intention", i Adorno's Rhinoceros: Art, Nature, Critique, red. Antonia Hofstätter och Daniel Steuer (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 19–41
"Remembering Nature Through Art: Hölderlin and the Poetic Representation of Life", Intellectual History Review vol. 31, nr 3 (2021): 411–426, https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2021.1955490
"Introduction", i Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2021), (skriven tillsammans med Karl Axelsson och Mattias Pirholt), Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, red. Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin och Mattias Pirholt, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429330254-1/introduction-karl-axelsson-camilla-flodin-mattias-pirholt?context=ubx&refId=67645d5c-1475-4d25-85b0-c3ab85e9f8e1
”Hölderlin's Higher Enligthenment", i Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2021), Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, red. Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin och Mattias Pirholt, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429330254-16/h%C3%B6lderlin-higher-enlightenment-camilla-flodin?context=ubx&refId=6ba4459a-2188-49a5-8bc5-a8ccf2dd12a4
"Adorno's Utopian Animals", i Critical Theory: Past, Present, Future, red. Anders Bartonek och Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2021), 103–117
"Art and Animals in Adorno", i Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism, red. Robin Truth Goodman (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), 181–194
"Introduction to Special Issue: Adorno and the Anthropocene" (skriven tillsammans med Sven-Anders Johansson), Adorno Studies, vol. 3, no 1 (2019): i–iv
"Art and the Possibility of a Liberated Nature", Adorno Studies, temanummer: Adorno and the Anthropocene, vol. 3, nr 1 (2019), red. Camilla Flodin och Sven Anders Johansson, 79–93
"Adorno and Schelling on the Art–Nature Relation", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 26, nr 1, 2018: 176–196, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09608788.2017.1349648
"'The eloquence of something that has no language': Adorno on Hölderlins Late Poetry", Adorno Studies, vol. 2, nr 1, 2018: 1–27
"Contemplation or Manipulation? Aesthetic Perspectives on Nature and Animals from Shaftesbury to Bio-Art" (skriven tillsammans med Karl Axelsson), i International Yearbook for Aesthetics 2017, 29–41, red. Zoltán Somhegyi, http://www.iaaesthetics.org/item/191-volume-19-zoltan-somhegyi-ed-retracing-the-past-historical-continuity-in-aesthetics-from-a-global-perspective
"Of Mice and Men: Adorno on Art and the Suffering of Animals", Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, nr 2, 2011, 139–156
"The Wor(l)d of the Animal: Adorno on Art's Expression of Suffering", Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, nr 3, 2011, https://doi.org/10.3402/jac.v3i0.7987
"Naturen som 'alls icke omyndig' vs. 'Det finns ingen natur längre.'", i Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings No 42 (Linköping: LiU E-Press, 2010), 105–113,
http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/042/009/index.html

Forskningsgrupper

Flodin, Camilla Susanne (2025). Adorno on Nature and Animals. I Pickford, Henry & Shuster, Martin (Red.), The Oxford Handbook of Adorno. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190932558. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190932527.013.28. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
This chapter addresses Adorno’s dialectical understanding of nature and how he rethinks the concept of nature by relating it to concepts that at first glance may appear as mere opposites of nature: history, freedom, reason, and art. By comparing Adorno’s views with those of his main interlocutors (Kant, Hegel, and Marx), the chapter demonstrates his unique contribution to understanding nature. Adorno’s crucial conception of domination of nature and its consequences is illuminated, not neglecting the most obvious instantiation of this domination: the oppression of other animals. The possibility of an end to domination is, for Adorno, kept alive by art in its mimesis of natural beauty. The chapter concludes by arguing for Adorno’s continuing relevance to come to grips with our detrimental relationship to the natural world.
Flodin, Camilla Susanne (2025). Aesthetic Unity. Journal of Adorno Studies. ISSN 3035-5710. 1(1), s. 70–72. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Flodin, Camilla Susanne (2024). Beautiful Creatures: Schiller and Goethe on Animal Freedom. I Flodin, Camilla Susanne; Pirholt, Mattias & Gentry, Gerad (Red.), Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9783110751284. s. 165–179. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Flodin, Camilla Susanne (2022). In the Name of the Rhinoceros: Expression beyond Human Intention. I Hofstätter, Antonia & Steuer, Daniel (Red.), Adorno's Rhinoceros: Art, Nature, Critique. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350177802. s. 19–41. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Axelsson, Karl; Flodin, Camilla Susanne & Pirholt, Mattias (2021). Introduction. I Axelsson, Karl; Flodin, Camilla Susanne & Pirholt, Mattias (Red.), Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics. Routledge. ISSN 9780367347963. s. 1–17. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Flodin, Camilla Susanne (2021). Remembering Nature Through Art: Hölderlin and the Poetic Representation of Life. Intellectual History Review. ISSN 1749-6977. 31(3), s. 411–426. doi: 10.1080/17496977.2021.1955490. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
ABSTRACT For Friedrich Hölderlin, the mediatory role of aesthetics was central to overcoming the challenges of modern life, in particular human beings’ antagonistic relationship to nature. This article claims that Hölderlin preserves and improves what is true in Kant’s conception of the beautiful: that the experience of beauty concerns recognizing our dependence on nature, and that this recognition resonates in the works of artistic geniality as well. The article furthermore argues that the twentieth-century philosopher Theodor W. Adorno’s interpretation of Hölderlin sheds light on how Hölderlin’s late poetry constitutes a remembrance of nature that avoids fetishizing nature as an origin to which we should return, while still allowing for an acknowledgment of its priority. Hölderlin’s poetry, as a work of spirit or mind, is exemplary in its commemoration of the precondition for spirit’s achievements: finite, empirical life. In this way, the self-reflectivity of Hölderlin’s poems also constitute a corrective to subjectivist tendencies that still reverberate in post-Kantian idealism.
Flodin, Camilla Susanne (2021). Hölderlin's Higher Enligthenment. I Axelsson, Karl; Flodin, Camilla Susanne & Pirholt, Mattias (Red.), Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics. Routledge. ISSN 9780367347963. s. 258–276. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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Flodin, Camilla Susanne; Pirholt, Mattias & Gentry, Gerad (2024). Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe. De Gruyter Brill. ISBN 9783110751284. 305 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Axelsson, Karl; Flodin, Camilla Susanne & Pirholt, Mattias (2021). Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics. Routledge. ISBN 9780367347963. 314 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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Flodin, Camilla Susanne (2025). Konstens värde. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Flodin, Camilla Susanne (2025). Utopiska djur i Adornos estetik. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Flodin, Camilla Susanne (2025). Schopenhauer – pessimismens filosof. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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Publisert 16. apr. 2024 11:36 - Sist endret 4. mars 2026 11:39