Mette Blok

Mette Blok is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. Her research focuses on 19th and 20th-century philosophy, ethics, and the intersection of philosophy with literature and aesthetics. She specializes in existentialism, moral philosophy, and thinkers like Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Stanley Cavell.

• Education:
  • Mag.Art. in Philosophy (Aarhus, Freiburg, Bonn, Vienna)
  • PhD in German (Roskilde University, 2012)

Her work explores the ethical dimensions of literature, particularly in modernist texts such as Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities, and the moral perfectionism of Stanley Cavell. She has published extensively on philosophy and literature, ethics, and aesthetics, with a 2024 chapter examining family resemblance in Cavell's work, a 2019 article on ethics as first philosophy in Cavell's literary invocation, and a 2018 monograph analyzing Musil's ethical themes.

Recent articles highlight her focus on 20th-century philosophical movements, ethics in literary form, and the interplay between aesthetics and moral thought. She has also contributed reviews on topics like the Vienna Circle's humanist legacy.

Notable activities include co-organizing the Philosophy & Translation conference in 2019. Her media coverage includes a 2013 interview titled Det sidste problematiske menneske (The Last Problematic Human).