Johannes Sløk (27 April 1916 in
Frederiksberg
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– 30 June 2001)
was a
Danish philosopher
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,
professor
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at the
University of Aarhus
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and founder of "Idéhistorie" (''
History of ideas
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''), an interdisciplinary discipline mainly about writings pertaining to the ideas of
Western culture
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since Antiquity. The concept is now the "Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas" a department under the faculty of humanities of
Aarhus University
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. During the student rising of 1968, Sløk was forced to leave his position as professor at Idéhistorie, and the institute became oriented around the
Marxist theory
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. Sløk instead was granted a special position at the Department of Theology, as professor of
analytic theology
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. Sløk was one of the four
Aarhus theologians and wrote a series of books on religion and its meaning to the modern man.
Works
*''Forsynstanken: et Forsøg paa en dogmatisk Begrebsbestemmelse'', disputats, 1947.
*''Platon'', 1950.
*''Die Formbildungen der Sprache und die Kategorie der Verkündigung'', 1951.
*''Die Anthropologie Kierkegaards'', 1954.
*''Tradition og nybrud: Pico Mirandola'', 1957.
*''Kristen moral før og nu'', 1959.
*''Det religiøse instinkt'', 1960.
*''Platon'', 1960.
*''De europæiske ideers historie'' (medforfatter), 1962.
*''Søren Kierkegaard'', 1963.
*''Eksistentialisme'', 1964.
*''Stoikerne'', 1966.
*''Det absurde teater og Jesu forkyndelse'', 1968.
*''Hvad er idehistorie?'', 1968.
*''Fylde eller tomhed: en idehistorisk skitse'', 1968.
*''Kritiske bemærkninger'', kroniksamling, 1973.
*''Nicolaus Cusanus og hans filosofiske system'', bd.1. ''Cusanus' dialog om visdommen'', bd. 2., 1974.
*''Kierkegaard - humanismens tænker'', 1978.
*''Teologiens elendighed'', 1979.
*''Da Kierkegaard tav'', 1980.
*''Det religiøse sprog'', 1981.
*''Den kristne forkyndelse'', 1983.
*''Kierkegaards univers. En ny guide til geniet'', 1983.
*''Da Gud fortalte en historie'', 1985.
*''Mig og Godot. Erindringsforskydninger'', 1986.
*''Religionsfilosofiske problemer'', 1987.
*''Opgøret mellem filosofi og retorik. Platons dialog "Gorgias"'', 1987.
*''Herre, giv mig mere vantro'', 1988.
*''Det her samfund'', 1989.
*''Da mennesket tog magten'', 1989.
*''Shakespeare. Renæssancen som drama'', 1990.
*''Hvad i alverden er verden?'', 1991.
*''Moralen der blev væk'', 1993.
*''80 år med Gud. Afhandlinger og essays'', 1996.
*''Opdagelsen af mennesket'', 1996.
*''Mennesket og verden'', 1996.
*''Livets elendighed. Kierkegaard og Schopenhauer'', 1997.
*''Prædikener'', 1998.
Shakespeare
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translations
*''Romeo og Julie'', 1969.
*''Othello'', 1970.
*''Macbeth'', 1970.
*''Lige for lige'', 1970.
*''Kong Lear'', 1970.
*''Othello'', 1971.
*''Hamlet Prins af Danmark'', 1971.
*''Tragedien om Julius Cæsar'', 1972.
*''Antonius og Cleopatra'', 1972.
*''Som man behager''; 1978.
*''Vintereventyret'', 1981.
*''Uvejret'', 1983.
*''Tragedien om Richard 3'', 1984.
*''Kong Henrik 4 1. og 2. del'', 1985.
References
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1916 births
2001 deaths
People from Frederiksberg
20th-century Danish philosophers
20th-century Danish translators
Academic staff of Aarhus University
Translators of William Shakespeare