The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the extension of the interdisciplinary research training group "Normativity, Critique, Change" for a second funding period. The Berlin Research Training Group is organised in cooperation between the FU, HU and UdK, with the coordination based at the FU. From the HU, the three academics Prof Dr Rahel Jaeggi and Prof Dr Thomas Schmidt from the Department of Philosophy and Prof Dr Christoph M?llers from the Faculty of Law are involved in this research training group, which supports researchers in the early stages of their careers.
The interdisciplinary research training group "Normativity, Criticism, Change" examines normative practices in which norms can only be adhered to through simultaneous critical debate and understands criticism as a central component of normative commitment. It links different areas such as language, morality, law, religion and art and shows that normativity is transformed and remains malleable through productive criticism. The research group rejects the common alternative between rigid normative commitment and subversion and instead emphasises the interplay between norm and deviation. In the second funding period, questions of power, violence and the ambivalent consequences of critical emancipation processes will take centre stage.
The Berlin Research Training Group is one of only ten research training groups that have been extended by the DFG nationwide.
About the Research Training Groups
Research Training Groups are university institutions that support researchers in the early stages of their careers and are funded by the DFG for a maximum of nine years.
The focus is on the qualification of doctoral students within the framework of a thematically focused research programme and a structured qualification concept. An interdisciplinary orientation of the Research Training Groups is desired. The aim is to prepare doctoral students intensively for the complex labour market of "science" and at the same time to support their early scientific independence.
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