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Jonas Lykke Larsen

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Research Fellow

Primary affiliation

Jonas Lykke Larsen

Areas of expertise

  • Polarization
  • Democratic Theory
  • Political phenomenology
  • Social Ontology
  • Feminist and queer theory

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Research

My PhD project examines political polarization through an Arendtian lens. Despite extensive empirical study, polarization has received limited engagement within political theory. I argue that the concept requires further theoretical clarification in order to understand the contemporary crisis of democracy. Accordingly, I introduce a new concept, which I call reflexive polarization, and argue that Hannah Arendt offers crucial resources for understanding this particular form of polarization.

Teaching activities

I am part of a team of four doing the lectures in Social and Political Philosophy. I lecture in the public realm; recognition and identity politics; gender and anti-gender ideology; and intersectional and black feminism. In these lectures I discus the ideas from thinkers such as Arendt, Habermas, Fraser, Taylor, Young, Butler, Vergès, and hooks. 

Collaborations

I am part of two research groups. The first is APG (Aarhus Phenomenology Group), and the second is ASOG (Aarhus Social Ontology Group): 
https://www.aarhussocialontology.com/home

I am also part of the editorial team at the danish journal for history of ideas Slagmark.

I have been a guest researcher in 2025 at Humboldt Universitry and the research group CTB (Critical Theory Berlin): https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/ 

Selected publications

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