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EXC 243:  Formation of Normative Orders

Subject Area History
Term from 2007 to 2019
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 39215448
 
Final Report Year 2019

Final Report Abstract

The aim of the EXC 243 “The Formation of Normative Orders” was to establish a productive and sustainable centre for research on normativity that sets new standards in designing a method of interdisciplinary collaboration in the humanities and social sciences, in achieving international visibility, and in developing innovative structures at Goethe University Frankfurt in cooperation with strong partners from other universities and non-university institutions. The key to achieving these goals lay in a specific interpretation of the concept of a “normative order”, which until then, although it existed, had not played a prominent role in the literature. The central idea was to bring different disciplinary perspectives to bear on the “normativity” – i.e. the binding force – of such an order and in doing so to make accessible the view of the participants in such orders and to describe them empirically (from the observer perspective). As a result it became apparent not only how diverse, for example, a political order is in virtue of the overlapping of legal norms, moral norms, religious convictions, historical narratives, etc., but also that the complex interrelationships thus formed can be understood only through cooperation among different disciplines. The decisive move in this regard was coining a methodological terminology and approach, which analysed normative orders as “orders of justification” resting on a variety of “justification narratives”. These conceptual orientations provided the theoretical platform for the undertaking. The most important scientific achievement of the Cluster was the development of this perspective, which is now widely discussed in the relevant literature. This is reflected in the strong international reception of the publications of the members of the network, five of whom were awarded Leibniz Prizes during the lifetime of the Cluster. In addition, its doctoral graduates and postdocs have been appointed to outstanding professorships all over the world. In structural respects, the Cluster created ten new permanent professorships with innovative denominations, each of which was filled by the first-placed candidate, including appointments from Harvard, San Diego and Munich. Furthermore, firm and lasting research relationships were established with the TU Darmstadt and with strong non-university partners, such as the Institute for Social Research (IfS), the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL), Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). An extensive network of international partner institutions rounded off the centre, which is in the process of being founded and whose interdisciplinary design is unique in the international landscape. Its sustainability is ensured by the State of Hessen and Goethe University Frankfurt in the form of a research centre “Normative Orders”.

Link to the final report

https://dx.doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1697316271

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