Coordination Funds

该研究小组探讨了作为人类实践的驱动力以及过去和现在的社会和政治秩序的运作方式的非理性主义。我们研究小组的一个主要假设是，非自愿性具有一种自相矛盾的结构：作为一种自由行为，它也取决于多种条件，这些条件支持、期望甚至要求某些类型的行为。在这一背景下，九个分项目审查了（a）作为规范的非自愿性，（B）作为政治参与和经济剥削的资源的非自愿性，以及（c）作为自由民主合法化模式和政治的话语策略的非自愿性，毕竟，这给个人留下的回旋余地很小。对非自愿性的实证探索加深了我们对人类行为者的历史和政治意义以及他们参与政治和社会的条件的理解。我们的研究兴趣受到新自由主义社会中非自愿性的当前意义的启发。哲学和社会学的子项目探索非自愿性作为当代灵活资本主义政治参与和经济收益的资源的力量，其他人则发展了非自愿性的历史谱系。在此，世纪末革命时代以来自由民主主义公民和主体的形成具有重要意义。这种自由和民主的自我意味着过一种自主的生活，这种生活基于自愿参与和对自己和未来的前瞻性投资。我们追踪这种生活形式的痕迹，超越现代社会的历史，追溯到古代雅典的历史。然而，我们也“省化”（D。Chakrabarty）在几个方面提出了民主，自由主义和非自愿性的关系，要求在中世纪殉难中的宗教驱动的非自愿性，自愿参与现代的非自愿性，以及非自愿性，非殖民化和移民和遣返的全球政治的关系。因此，我们的跨学科研究小组主要由历史学家组成，中心子项目也在政治社会学和实践哲学领域。我们的分析视角受到政治文化史和治理研究的启发。我们试图理解非自愿性和自愿性实践，它们嵌入在话语、政治范式和概念以及主体形成模式的网络中，所有这些都有助于不同类型的外部行为和自我行为的融合。基于我们的跨学科和实证工作，我们还将有助于对治理和政治文化史的概念辩论，并加深对主体和社会如何通过非自愿性治理的理解。

The research group explores voluntarism as a driving force of human practices and as modus operandi of social and political order in the past and present. A leading assumption of our research group is that voluntariness has an antinomic structure: exercised as an act of freedom, it also depends on multiple conditions that endorse, expect, and even demand certain types of behavior. Against this backdrop, nine subprojects examine (a) voluntariness as norm, (b) voluntariness as resource of both political participation and economic exploitation, and (c) voluntariness as discursive strategy for a liberal-democratic legitimation of patterns and politics, which, after all, leave only little room to manoeuver to the individuals. Empirical explorations of voluntariness sharpen our understanding of the historical and political significance of human actors and the conditions of their political and social participation.Our research interest is inspired by the current significance of voluntariness in neoliberal societies. With philosophical and sociological subprojects explore the power of voluntariness as resource for political participation and economic yield in contemporary flexible capitalism, others develop historical genealogies of voluntariness. Here, the shaping of the liberal democratic citizen and subject since the age of revolution in the late 18th century is of crucial significance. This liberal and democratic self was meant to lead an autonomous life based on voluntary engagement and foresighted investment in themselves and their future. We follow the traces of this form of life beyond the history of modern societies as far back in time as to the history of ancient Athens. Yet we also “provincialize” (D. Chakrabarty) this nexus of democracy, liberalism and voluntariness in several respects, by asking for religiously driven voluntariness in medieval martyrdom, for voluntary participation in modern dictatorships, as well as for the relation of voluntariness, decolonization, and the global politics of migration and repatriation. Accordingly, our interdisciplinary research group consists of mostly historians, with central subprojects also in the fields of political sociology and practical philosophy.Our analytical perspective is inspired by the cultural history of the political and by governmentality studies. We seek to understand voluntariness and voluntary practices as embedded in a network of discourses, of political paradigms and concepts, and of modes of subject formation, all contributing to an amalgamation of different types of external conduct and self-conduct. Based on our interdisciplinary and empirical work, we will also contribute to the conceptual debate on governmentality and the cultural history of the political and sharpen the understanding of how subjects and societies are governed through voluntariness.