Myth and Heroization Processes: Hans Blumberg (D13*)

• Subject Area: Roman Catholic Theology
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181750155

The goal of the project is to apply Hans Blumenberg¿s interdisciplinary theory of myth to heroization processes. This will involve conducting a productive critical analysis of this theory and making the results available to the SFB on the one hand and investigating divergent figurations of the heroic of the 19th/20th century in European modernism on the other. As in Blumberg's theory, which will serve as the main point of reference in all areas of the project, historical studies will be linked to questions of normativity and ethics. In so doing, the suproject will work on the assumption that it is only possible to reach an adequate understanding of these refigurations with reference to the collapse of religious certainties.

• 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 Head: Professor Dr. Magnus Striet