Lars Tønder
Lars Tønder is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen.
His research combines three areas of interest: early modern political thought, contemporary political theory, and democratic theory. Within each of these fields, Lars’ research aims to contribute to what is called the “sensorial turn,” i.e., an approach to politics in the social sciences and in the humanities more broadly that foregrounds affect, perception, and other registers of embodied experience in order to explain how conflict and coexistence are both structured by and exceed their place within social institutions and political regimes. The bulk of his research examines this process in a manner directly relevant to debates about tolerance, free speech, pluralism, and democratic culture.
Prior to his appointment at the University of Copenhagen, Lars held positions in both the US and Australia, and he has been a visiting fellow at the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, and at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University. Lars has published extensively in journals such as Political Theory, Theory & Event, Teoria, and Contemporary Political Theory. He is the co-editor of Radical Democracy: Politics Between Abundance and Lack (Manchester University Press, 2006), and the author of Tolerance: A Sensorial Orientation to Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013).
His research combines three areas of interest: early modern political thought, contemporary political theory, and democratic theory. Within each of these fields, Lars’ research aims to contribute to what is called the “sensorial turn,” i.e., an approach to politics in the social sciences and in the humanities more broadly that foregrounds affect, perception, and other registers of embodied experience in order to explain how conflict and coexistence are both structured by and exceed their place within social institutions and political regimes. The bulk of his research examines this process in a manner directly relevant to debates about tolerance, free speech, pluralism, and democratic culture.
Prior to his appointment at the University of Copenhagen, Lars held positions in both the US and Australia, and he has been a visiting fellow at the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, and at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University. Lars has published extensively in journals such as Political Theory, Theory & Event, Teoria, and Contemporary Political Theory. He is the co-editor of Radical Democracy: Politics Between Abundance and Lack (Manchester University Press, 2006), and the author of Tolerance: A Sensorial Orientation to Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013).
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