Interdisziplinarity as a Form of Cooperation: The Debates Concerning the Epistemic State of Narratives as Exemplary Case (1970 - 1990)

自20世纪50年代以来，西德以历史为导向的人文学科的跨学科研究形式越来越多，不仅零星地合作，而且在制度上确立了自己的地位。这个项目探索了这些群体内部以及他们之间的个人、制度和认识论结构，以找出在这种背景下各自研究的过程和结果在多大程度上被创造出来。该项目基于这样的假设，即这些形式的合作不仅开始反映和解决共同的、已经存在的问题，而且这些问题最初是在跨学科讨论中提出和鼓励的。这样做，创造了新的核心主题，制定了处理这些主题的方法、理论和制度规范，并最终确立了这一时期的新的关键范式。在主题上，将通过考察跨学科辩论的例子来验证这一假设，这些辩论是在1970年开始出现的，被理解为一般叙事理论形成的一部分，是关于叙事作为一种科学实践的一种科学实践。随着“学理”的现代化和科学化，这一传统实践的合法性被质疑为不科学，因此需要进行单独的理论反思。因此，该项目将侧重于合作形式，在这种形式下，文学学者、历史学家和哲学家自20世纪70年代初以来走到一起，从理论上反映问题，并在实践中阐述这些问题。因此，文学研究成为焦点，因为在重新定位的过程中，这些学科最大限度地受益于这些辩论。非常值得注意的是，这些学者在之前或同时存在的合作形式中多次会面，因此非常熟悉他们相互的思维方式。新的团队往往由相似的个人组合组成。因此，可以提出的问题是，这些合作内部和之间现有的相互关系和重叠在其工作的过程和效果方面最终导致了什么样的结果。由于机构和理论以及科学政策的历史原因，1990年左右调查的这一时期结束是合理的。

Since the 1950s there is an increasing amount of interdisciplinary forms of research in the historically orientated humanities ("Geisteswissenschaften") in Western Germany, which not only cooperate sporadically, but establish themselves institutionally. This project explores the personal, institutional und epistemological configurations within these groups as well as between them, in order to find out to what extent the process and the results of the respective research are coined by this setting.The project is based on the hypothesis that these forms of cooperation have not only begun to reflect upon and to solve common, already existing problems, but also that these questions were raised and encouraged within and as a result of the interdisciplinary discussion in the first place. Doing so new core themes were created, the methodological, theoretical and institutional norms of their treatment were framed, and finally new key paradigms of this period were established. Thematically, the hypothesis will be verified by examining the example of interdisciplinary debates concerning the epistemic state of narratives as a scientific practice in the "Geisteswissenschaften", which have begun to emerge since 1970 and were understood as part of the formation of a general theory of narration. Following the modernization and scientification of the "Geisteswissenschaften" the legitimacy of this traditional practice was questioned as not scientific, thus, a separate theoretical reflection was required. Therefore, the project will focus on forms of cooperation, in which literary scholars, historians and philosophers have come together since the beginning of the 1970s to reflect the problems theoretically as well as to elaborate on them practically. Hereby, literary studies are focussed, for in the course of their re-orientation these disciplines have most of all profited by these debates. It is extremely remarkable that these scholars have met repeatedly in preceding or simultaneously existing forms of cooperation and were therefore highly familiar with their mutual ways of thinking. The new groups were very often composed of similar personal combinations. Therefore, the question can be raised, to what kind of results the existing interrelations and overlappings within and between these cooperations with regards to the process and effects of their work finally led. The end of the period investigated around 1990 is justified by reasons of the history of institutions and theories as well as science policies.