GRK 2291: Contemporary/Literature. History, theory, and praxeology

研究培训小组从历史、理论和行动学的角度探讨“当代”或“现在”与“文学”之间的关系，探讨“当代文学”概念的构成维度。研究培训小组没有预设诸如“现在”或“当代文学”之类的概念，而是探究其概念化及其实际程序生产的历史和文化可变条件。其前提是对“现在/当代性”的历史化、理论反思和比较视角，以及对“当代文学”生产中涉及的实践、过程、演员和机构的方法论锚定。在第一阶段关注“现在”和“当代文学”的历史化以及实践-理论反思之后，第二阶段将在理论和方法论前提的基础上，关注“现在”或“当代性”与“文学”之间关系的复杂表现和反思模式：其目的是在系统和历史比较的维度上，以及在各自的技术和医学条件下，调查文学参考的类型、水平和实践。这一研究重点也加深了对科学史和科学理论的影响的看法。自从18世纪末第一个纲论性的主张被提出以来，文学应该与现在联系起来，“现在”如何在文学中出现的问题不仅涉及文学批评和政治宣传，而且涉及语言学和文学研究的（自我）观察和（自我）定位。在此背景下，研究训练组的第二阶段侧重于与科学史和文学批评、文学研究和公共领域的相互作用有关的问题，并促进对当代文学的历史、理论和行为学研究的方法论反思和进一步发展。研究训练小组的资格和监督计划继续让博士和博士后参与文学和文化研究的相关辩论，并在一个雄心勃勃的研究环境中促进他们的研究；此外，它还促进了与“当代文学”产生领域的专业从业者的联系与合作。

The Research Training Group explores the constitutive dimensions of the concept of 'contemporary literature' with regard to the relationship between ‘the contemporary’ or ‘the present' and 'literature' in historical, theoretical and praxeological perspectives. Instead of presupposing concepts such as ‘the present' or 'contemporary literature', the Research Training Group inquires into the historically and culturally variable conditions of their conceptualization and their practical-procedural production. The premise for this is a historicizing, theoretically reflected and comparative perspective on 'the present/contemporaneity' as well as its methodological anchoring with a view to the practices, processes, actors and institutions involved in the production of 'contemporary literature'. After the first phase focused on the historicization of 'the present' and 'contemporary literature' as well as on practice-theoretical reflection, the second phase will - on the basis of the theoretical and methodological premises developed - focus on the complex modes of appearance and reflection of the relationship between 'the present' or ‘contemporaneity’ and 'literature': The aim is to investigate types, levels and practices of literary references to the present in a systematic and historical-comparative dimension as well as with regard to their respective technical and medial conditions. This research focus also sharpens the view on the implications for the history and theory of science. Since the first programmatic claims were raised at the end of the 18th century that literature should relate to the present, the question of how ‘the present’ emerges in literature not only concerns matters of literary criticism and political publicity, but also the (self-)observation and (self-)positioning of philology and literary studies. Against this background, the second phase of the Research Training Group focuses on questions relating to the history of science and the interplay of literary criticism, literary studies and the public sphere, and it promotes the methodological reflection and further development of historically, theoretically and praxeologically informed research of contemporary literature. The qualification and supervision program of the Research Training Group continues to involve doctoral and post-doctoral students in relevant debates in literary and cultural studies and promotes their research in an ambitious research environment; furthermore, it facilitates contacts and cooperation with professional practitioners in those fields in which "contemporary literature" is produced.