This subproject is exploring the built-in limitations of legal norms prohibiting racial discrimination. The norms under investigation do not rule out the preservation of special rights for certain classes of people, even when the relevant classification draws on racial characteristics. We shall examine the premise that these limitations are driven significantly by stabilized and routinized practices of comparing that may, and indeed do, change over time. We also want to theorize concepts of equality, in particular from the perspective of universalism: how are we to frame ‘universalism’, and how do we relate universalistic and particularistic concepts of equality?
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
