Marius Gudmand-Høyer

Presentation

Affiliated to the research program:
The Human Turn (supported by the VELUX FOUNDATION).

Review editor of Foucault Studies.

Fellow of Dansk Selskab for Affektive Lidelser.

Educational background:
Philosophy; History of Science (natural sciences as well as the social sciences and the humanities); Classical Philology (Ancient Greek, Latin).
 

Primary research areas

The human turn in contemporary psychiatric practice and theory: Reemergence of experiential and existential problematics in the age of neurosciences

The history of Stimmungskrankheiten (melancholia, mania, depression, exaltation, manic-depressive illness, etc.). — Formation and prehistory (19th century). — Heyday and history (20th century). — Reformulation and future (21th century).

Problems pertaining to mental illness and modern work life.

Michel Foucault’s work of thought and complete oeuvre.

Historical Problematization Analysis (advanced from the very late writings of Foucault, 1981-1984).