{"id":8194,"date":"2024-09-19T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T11:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reverent-antonelli.23-88-7-78.plesk.page\/member\/prof-dr-till-van-rahden\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:34:58","slug":"prof-dr-till-van-rahden","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/member\/prof-dr-till-van-rahden\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Till van Rahden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Holder of the Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research project:<\/strong><br\/>Forms, Style and Manners: Democracy as a Way of Life<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research project:  <\/strong>&#8220;We are all democrats now. Yet concerns over the future viability of democracy pervade scholarly and public controversies. Today, the social sciences dominate the domain of democratic theory. In contrast, the humanities have contributed comparatively little to our understanding of democracy&#8217;s fragile and contingent nature in the past and in the present. Against this background, I aim to strengthen the role of the humanities in scholarly exchanges over the meaning, the fragility and the contingency of democracy as a way of life. The focus of the research project is not on the content of content, i.e. democratic ideas in democratic polities, but on the content of form. It therefore invites conversations about the democratic content of aesthetic forms, styles, and manners. Such an endeavor responds to the suspicion that an emphasis on democratic forms, styles, and aesthetics detracts from more urgent questions about democratic substance and procedures. Key questions of such an endeavor include: If we argue that a specific culture is an essential, if elusive bedrock for democratic polities, is it possible to identify which forms and styles stimulate, sustain and revive democracy as a way of life?&#8221; (Till van Rahden)<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><em>May 8, 2017, 6:15 p.m.<\/em><br\/><strong>Collecting rags: Siegfried Kracauer and the history of the 19th century<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><em>March 13, 2017, 7 p.m.<br\/><\/em>Lecture<br\/><strong>How Daddy learned democracy: On the question of authority in the early Federal Republic of Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><em>May 8, 2017, 6 p.m. c.t.<\/em>Lecture<strong><br\/>Lumpensammeln<\/strong><strong>: Siegfried Kracauer and the history of the 19th century<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><em>July 7, 2017<\/em><br\/>Workshop with <strong>Johannes Voelz<\/strong> (Heisenberg Professor of American Studies, Democracy, and Aesthetics)<br\/><strong>What was democratic culture? Moral passions, aesthetics and politics <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Events:<\/strong><br\/><em>Workshop<\/em>, May 21, 2015<br\/>Democracy as a way of life? Style and aesthetics as key concepts in political theory <\/p>\n\n<p><em>Paper Presentation<\/em>, July 22, 2015, 11:30 a.m.<br\/>History in the House of the Hangman: How Postwar Germany Became a Key Site for the Study of Jewish History<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holder of the Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al Research project:Forms, Style and Manners: Democracy as a Way of Life Research project: &#8220;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1685,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"position":[213],"institute":[],"class_list":["post-8194","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","position-former-fellow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member\/8194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/member"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"institute","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institute?post=8194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}