SFB 1015: Muße (Leisure/Otium). Concepts, Spaces, Figures

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The CRC 1015 Otium. Societal resource | Critical potential examines otium, meaning time of freedom and potentiality. New productivity can arise from such time due to the fact that it is not defined by a pressure of productivity. Our topic offers access to the comparative analysis of a tension that may exist in any society: the tension between individual spaces of freedom on the one hand, the demands that societal division of labor places on individuals on the other.The research of the CRC is thus directly relevant to contemporary social-political debates. What role should economically defined requirements of productivity play in the organization of social life? How should such productivity be defined, and what are its consequences for the possibility to live a life in full? Which demands are individuals willing to bear, and are such demands equitably distributed amongst different groups? These questions are central to contemporary social criticism, and every discussion of otium has them as a background. The CRC focuses on the analysis of the social role of otium and builds on two ambivalent identifica-tions of otium: its role as a societal resource and its critical potential. Because of the critical potential which comes from it, otium is an important resource for societies, yet it simultaneously evades any scheduled use. This makes otium as complex as it is socially relevant, a phenomenon which the CRC investigates in a wide, interdisciplinary network. In the third phase of funding, the research of the CRC is carried out in a broad spectrum of disciplinary subprojects. Building upon these projects, the re-search centre involves social groups in a transdisciplinary dialogue that becomes part of the research process, implements innovative forms of scientific communication and brings the results of our collaborative research across three phases of funding into a synthesis.