Project Details
Projekt
Coordination Funds
Applicant
Professor Dr. Rolf Elberfeld
Subject Area
History of Philosophy
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 535345212
Today, the discipline of philosophy not only faces the challenges of a globalised world, but is also confronted with demands for a decolonisation of the sciences. The aim of the research group is to bring the preliminary work and debates from comparative and intercultural philosophy, the philosophical discourses in non-European world regions as well as post- and decolonial theory into a fruitful exchange. In a non-hierarchical and open-ended debate, future possibilities of a globally oriented approach to philosophy will be discussed, but also the fundamental challenges that such an approach has to overcome. In the first funding period, scholars from Africa and Latin America will be invited, in the second from India, China, Korea and Japan. In terms of content, the focus is on both historical and systematic questions. Based on the results of the Koselleck project "Histories of Philosophy in Global Perspective" (University of Hildesheim, 2019-2024), on the one hand, the historical orders of philosophy in selected languages and the inclusions and exclusions that emerge therein are to be analysed in depth and based on concrete materials in the respective language in order to further develop approaches for a global historiography of philosophy. On the other hand, fundamental systematic consequences for a concept of philosophy in the broader sense are to be drawn from historical research, but also from non-European, feminist and post/decolonial perspectives. The aim is to develop a globally oriented redefinition of the concept of philosophy and the orders of knowledge in the discipline of philosophy. The following research questions arise: 1. How can the term "philosophy" be systematically redefined on the basis of a global history of the historiography of philosophy? 2. What systematic and ethical consequences can be drawn for the practice of philosophising in a globalised world? 3. What practices and expressions of philosophising become relevant in a global perspective? 4. What are the historical and systematic consequences of the possibility of entangled practices of philosophising for the "canon" of philosophy and the practice of philosophising in university research and teaching? 5. What are the concrete possibilities for redefining a globally oriented "canon" of philosophy? 6. How can philosophy be opened up to other disciplines and how can the subject be redefined in relation to other disciplines? In addition to various thematic workshops in cooperation with the fellows on site, a globally oriented encyclopaedia of philosophical works as well as introductory literature for use in teaching and research on philosophising in a global perspective are planned as results.
DFG Programme
Advanced Studies Centres in SSH
