Aesthetics of Affect (S04*)

• Subject Area: Greek and Latin Philology ; European and American Literary and Cultural Studies ; Classical, Roman, Christian and Islamic Archaeology ; Sociological Theory
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181750155

This project continues the work of the first two funding periods of the SFB, taking up and intensifying the research on the depictions of heroic figures and their strongly affective appeal. The “Aesthetics of Affect” explores the interplay of aesthetic arrangements of the heroic and social formations in order to understand their role in the negotiation and (re)shaping of social relations from antiquity to the present day.

• 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. Andreas Gelz; Professor Dr. Ralf von den Hoff; Professorin Dr. Barbara Korte; Dr. Stefanie Christiane Lethbridge; Dr. Tobias Schlechtriemen; Professor Dr. Stefan Tilg