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Traditions of Philosophical and Political Thought

The main areas of research in this focus area are the experiential and meaningful dimensions of being human, individuality and community, and ethical and political agency.

The research groups belonging to this focus area analyze social, political, ethical, philosophical, and cultural problems with the objective of producing new solutions to them. The most important research topics concern individuality, communality or sociability, moral and political agency, and the nature, conditions, variety, and significance of human experience. These themes are also scrutinized within intellectual traditions in philosophy and politics, and central conceptual and theoretical changes are traced in these traditions especially with respect to political institutions and the use and organization of power as well as the argumentative and rhetorical forms of persuasion and influence.

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Research Projects

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After Avicenna

After Avicenna investigates the metaphysical thought of the Muslim philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037 CE), its Islamic reception, and its connections to contemporary metaphysical essentialism.
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Artrepreneneurs on the Edge: Artistic Autonomy, Marketization and the Organization of Creative Practice in the Baltic Sea Region (ArtR)

The project responds to the ongoing policy debate about artistic freedom and the role of creative practitioners in the context of the neoliberal political economy.
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Artrepreneneurs on the Edge: Artistic Autonomy, Marketization and the Organization of Creative Practice in the Baltic Sea Region (ArtR)

The project responds to the ongoing policy debate about artistic freedom and the role of creative practitioners in the context of the neoliberal political economy.
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Asymmetric Encounters: Intersubjectivity and the Sense of Boundaries

The project argues that our subjective sense of boundaries is multilayered and potentially includes tensions between the layers. The project is theoretical and it makes use of philosophical, psychoanalytic and psychological resources.
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Gender in Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy

The project investigates early feminist arguments and their relation to the history of philosophy and political thought. It focuses on education, innate capacities, the concepts of equality and difference, and questions of citizenship and political rule.
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Vicious, Antisocial, and Sinful - The Social and Political Dimension of Moral Vices from Medieval to Early Modern Philosophy (VAS)

The project Vicious, Antisocial and Sinful (VAS) analyses the social and political dimension of human vices in medieval and early modern philosophy. The key concepts, moral vice and its theological counterpart sin, are approached from two perspectives.

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