Sociological Diagnoses of the Present between Post-Heroism and New Figures of the Extraordinary (D12 [B07])

• Subject Area: Sociological Theory
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181750155

The project will study (1) sociological diagnoses of the time between the First World War and the present and their emblematic social figures with regard to the tension between post-heroic orientations and heroic concepts of the subject. The plan is to conduct (2) a discourse-analytical reconstruction of contemporary diagnoses of post-heroism and their confrontation with interpretations of the present that point to new trends and expressions of the heroic.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 948: Heroes - Heroisations - Heroisms. Transformations and Conjunctures from Antiquity to the Modern Age
• Applicant Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Ulrich Bröckling