Work on Concepts. The History of Controversies within the Research Group Poetik und Hermeneutik (1966-1984)

该项目考察了POETIK UND HERMENEUTIK研究小组的工作，该小组组织为跨学科对话，并希望在人文学科中引入一种新的实践形式。由于其跨学科的工作，包括国际讨论，该小组被认为对20世纪下半叶德国人文学科的现代化话语负有主要责任。该项目分析了研究小组的条件，工作形式和效果，以检查这种社区意见是否真正有效，并探索其局限性在哪里。这样做的一个基本先决条件是重读17卷会议论文，结合新获得的大量档案材料，以发展POETIK和HERMENEUTIK的历史，使其成为人文学科研究的典范案例。为了阐明理论兴趣与其制度框架以及更广泛的学术政治之间的关系，研究小组的工作将从四个方面进行审查。(1)以关于概念史的争议为例，该项目将探讨导致理论新方向或未能实现新方向的跨学科对话的条件。(2)关键是分析个人网络、沟通标准和构成规则，这项工作在其中持续了30多年，确保了团体的卓越声誉。(3)在此背景下，研究小组的研究过程及其结果如何与当代文学研究的讨论联系在一起，这些讨论基本上发生在国家文学的学科秩序中，这些秩序在20世纪60年代的大学改革中得到了确认。一个特别的焦点将是检视POETIK UND HERMENEUTIK成员与德意志民主共和国科学院中央文学史研究所（Zentralinstitut fr Literaturgeschichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR）的文学学者之间的相互认知与交流，这种交流自该团体存在以来一直持续进行。该项目将探索迄今未发表的材料是否支持该团体的观点，即它本身是一个使德国人文学科现代化的圈子，形成了一个有影响力的追随者学派，并引起了范式转变。为了做到这一点，在大量出版和档案材料的支持下，对人文历史的基础研究将首次与现代科学研究方法联系起来，这些方法对文学研究和一般人文学科的有用性将在具体案例中得到检验。这项研究的结果将导致对诗学和解释学历史的详细研究。

This project examines the work of the research group POETIK UND HERMENEUTIK, which was organized as an interdisciplinary dialog and wanted to introduce a new form of practice in the humanities. Because of its interdisciplinary work that includes the international discussion, the group is credited with being largely responsible for modernizing the discourse in the humanities in Germany in the second half of the twentieth century. The project analyzes the conditions, work forms, and effects of the research group in order to check whether this communis opinio is really valid, and to explore where its limits are. An essential precondition for this is the rereading of the 17 volumes of conference papers in connection with newly available, extensive archival materials to develop the history of POETIK UND HERMENEUTIK as an exemplary case for research in the humanities. In order to clarify how theoretical interests relate to their institutional framework as well as wider politics of scholarship, the work of the research group will be examined under four aspects.(1) Using the example of controversies about conceptual history, the project will look into the conditions of the interdisciplinary dialog that led to new directions in theoryor failed to do so. (2) Essential for this is the analysis of the personal networks, communicative standards, and the constitutive rules within which this work continued for more than 30 years, ensuring the groups outstanding reputation. (3) In this context, the project asks how the process of the groups research and its results relate to the contemporary discussion in literary studies at certain points, which basically took place within the disciplinary orders of the national literatures, orders that were confirmed by the university reforms of the 1960s. A special focus will be the examination of the mutual perception and exchange between members of POETIK UND HERMENEUTIK and literature scholars at the Zentralinstitut für Literaturgeschichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR [Central Institute of Literary History at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR], which took place continuously for as long as the group existed. The project will explore whether hitherto unpublished material supports the groups view of itself as a circle that modernized the humanities in Germany, formed an influential school of followers, and caused a paradigm shift.In order to do so, for the first time, basic research on the history of the humanities, supported by extensive published and archival material, will be linked with methods of modern science studies, and the usefulness of these methods for literary studies and the humanities in general will be tested against a concrete case. The results of this research will lead to a detailed study on the history of POETIK UND HERMENEUTIK.