Ein deutsch-französisches Forschungszentrum für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Description The lens of life stories allows us to identify contested memories and counter-narratives, thus offering new ways of interpreting the social dynamics that led to acts of genocidal violence and their remembrance, yet also to their denial. Lives in Fragments focuses on life stories that were fragmented and shattered through the historical violence of […]
Abstract The article traces Shaftesbury’s invention of humour as a critique of enthusiasm, an invention that is part of a debate on Hobbesian anthropology and the reading of laughter as an affirmation of its superiority. Shaftesbury sets up the new coordinates of moral thought, between reductionism and theology, which will be systematically elaborated by Francis […]
In the 1940s and 1950s, the concepts of surplus labor, disguised unemployment, and underemployment emerged as key tools for thinking about economic development in the emerging “Third World.” This article examines how these concepts were developed and debated in Egypt, a country that was at the forefront of postcolonial planning efforts internationally. To this end, […]