Project Area A

Narratives and Reflexions of Decision-Making

At the centre of Project Area A were public reflections and cultural narratives of decision-making. All of the six subprojects in Project Area A studied how decision-making in medieval and modern societies was understood conceptually-semantically and constructed narratively, on literary, philosophical-scientific as well as political-media levels. These subprojects also investigated how certain decision problems were publicly reflected on. That encompassed a self-reflective perspective, specifically posing the question of in which philosophical-theoretical traditions the conceptual basis of the research centre is to be situated.