Analogies between Comparisons as Mechanisms of “Departicularization”? On the Construction of Resonances between Colonial and Metropolitan Formations of Comparisons in National “Founding Debates” in the German Empire (1871-1918). (F07#)

该项目调查了德意志帝国的社会科学和传教士实践社区，这些社区构建了1）大都市的“社会问题”与（以及大都市对“资产阶级”与“工人”的比较）和殖民地的“土著问题”（以及“德国人”和“土著人”的殖民比较）; 2）大都市中的“文化斗争”（和大都市之间的比较“新教”和“天主教”）和宗教的情况在殖民地（以及“欧洲基督教世界”和“伊斯兰教”之间的殖民比较）。在布迪厄的国家形成理论的基础上，该项目假设这些比较的混淆“去特殊化”了资产阶级的美好生活理想和新教的宗教主体性规范，因为两者都通过与“殖民他者”的对比而与德国性混为一谈。

The project investigates social-scientific and missionary communities of practice in the German Empire that constructed analogies 1) between the “social question” in the metropole (and metropolitan comparisons of “bourgeois” vs. “workers”) and the “native question” in the colonies (and colonial comparisons of “Germans” and “natives”); and 2) between the “Kulturkampf” in the metropole (and metropolitan comparisons between “Protestantism” and “Catholicism”) and the religious situation in the colonies (and colonial comparisons between “European Christendom” and “Islam”). Building on Bourdieu’s theory of state-formation, the project hypothesizes that the confounding of these comparisons “departicularized” a bourgeois ideal of the good life and a Protestant norm of religious subjectivity as both became conflated with Germanness as such via contrasts to a “colonial other.”