Personalization: Subjectification and Authority (S02*)

• Subject Area: Sociological Theory ; Asian Studies ; Roman Catholic Theology ; Practical Philosophy
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181750155

Authority is attributed to heroines and heroes because (and provided that) they are followed and looked up to. At the same time, heroes provide models for self-description, self-fashioning and action-orientation; in this sense, they subjectify. This project combines insights into ideas about the heroic subject and insights into heroes as figures of authority, and delineates general characteristics of invocations of the heroic subject. Moreover, this project uses these insights to better understand how personal authority relationships arise, are maintained or eroded, and what effects of subjectification they produce. This project focuses on the period between the 19th and the 21st century.

• 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 Heads: Professor Dr. Ulrich Bröckling; Professor Dr. Andreas Sommer; Professorin Dr. Nicola Spakowski; Professor Dr. Magnus Striet