SFB 1385: Law and Literature

该合作研究中心在其第一个供资阶段审查了法律与文学之间的关系，并将在第二个供资阶段继续这样做。法律和文学之间的联系--“从同一张床上升起”（雅各布·格林）--在各自学科的复杂相互关系中，在其关键概念和方法中，以及在其社会和文化重要性中，被证明是非常富有成效的。该中心为自己确定的第一项任务是建立这一研究领域的基本地图，与此同时，已取得了相当大的进展，有关出版物对此有记载。A（实质性）、B（比较性）和C（组成性）三个项目领域的细分，已证明对项目的内部结构和指导其研究非常有用，但也可作为国际研究界广泛接受的排序原则。在这一结构之外，还建立了进一步的网络平台：三个论坛（理论、欧洲、形式）;中心自己的开放式在线百科全书;或众多的动态集群。本申请中提出的第二个资助阶段的重新定位将重点转移到已经开始的欧洲化和全球化锚主题上;它还将媒体化问题视为最后第三阶段的中心问题。目前的研究重点的连续性与重大的重新定位相结合，已经在项目的总体结构中显示出来。虽然目前的项目领域（A）至（C）仍然存在并得到进一步发展，但它们现在将得到三个概念领域的补充，这些领域反映、阐述和指导这种重新定位：（1）限制和超越，（2）身份形成和其他，（3）普遍化和相对化。所有项目都至少涉及其中一个领域，并作出各自的项目贡献。特别是鉴于关于事实与虚构、人民法律与法官法律、传统媒体影响力的缩小和法律的控制之外的传播空间的兴起，特别是在全球一级，以及最后关于国际法界定的压倒一切的标准与政治和道德指令的激烈辩论，规范和美学价值的表达过程和形式似乎是我们这个时代的迫切需要，它仍然是该中心研究的具体目标。

This Collaborative Research Centre has examined the relations between law and literature in its first funding phase and will continue to do so in the second. The connections between law and literature – “risen from the same bed” (Jakob Grimm) – prove to be highly productive in the complex mutualities of the respective disciplines, of their key concepts and methods, but also in their social and cultural importance. The first task which the Centre has set itself in establishing an essential cartography of this field of research has meanwhile made substantial progress as documented in apposite publications. The subdivision in the three project areas A (Materiality), B (Comparativity) and C (Constitutivity) has proven most useful for the internal structuring of the project and for guiding its research, but it could also be positioned in the international research community as a widely accepted ordering principle. Set squarely and beyond this structure, further networking platforms have been put in place: the three Fora (Theory, Europe, Form); the Centre’s own Open Access Online Encyclopaedia; or the numerous Dynamic Clusters. The reorientation for the second funding phase as proposed in this application moves the focus on the already incipient anchor themes of Europeanisation and Globalisation; and it also takes in issues of Medialisation envisaged as central for the final, third phase. This combination of continuity of current research foci with a substantial reorientation already shows in the project’s overarching structure. While the current project areas (A) to (C) remain in place and are further developed, they will now be complemented by three conceptual fields, which reflect, expound and guide this reorientation: (1) Limitation and Transgression, (2) Identity Formation and Othering, (3) Universalisation and Relativization. All projects relate to at least one of these fields and make their project-specific contributions. Not least in view of the fierce debates on fact versus fiction, on people’s law versus law of the judges, on the shrinking of the influence of classical media and the rise of communication spaces beyond legal control, especially on a global level, and finally on overriding standards defined by international law versus political and moral directives, a fundamental examination of contents, processes and forms of articulation of both normative and aesthetic values appears as an urgent need of our time, and it remains the specific aim of research at this Centre.