Research and Projects
Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme
Call for Applications
The newly established Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme, funded by H枚ppsche Stiftung and directed by Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst and Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf, is seeking to appoint two post-doctoral fellows in Philosophy and Social Sciences. The fellows will be part of the Frankfurt academic community, especially of the Normative Orders Research Centre, for a duration of 10 months, starting October 2024.
Application deadline is February 18, 2024.
See the call for applications here.
Research Centre "The Formation of Normative Orders"
"Globalization, world order, orders of justification"
| In 2007, Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst set up, together with Prof. Dr. Klaus G眉nther, the cluster of excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders", funded with the help of the excellence initiative of the federal republic. |
"ConTrust"
"Trust in Conflict"
Conflicts are inevitable in societal contexts. But where do we find the certainty that disputes will not escalate, that the parties involved will adhere to rules, that institutions will protect us from transgressions, and that the social world as a whole will remain stable? The answer is trust. Trust creates a "unsecured security" that can never be fully realized but nevertheless constitutes the foundation of social coexistence. But how does trust develop, and what are its origins? The research initiative "ConTrust 鈥� Trust in Conflict," based at the Research Alliance Normative Orders, explores these questions through interdisciplinary, empirical, and normative research.
"Research Institute Social Cohesion"
"Theories, Politics, and Cultures of Cohesion"
The Research Institute for Social Cohesion investigates the understanding and different forms of social cohesion in various societies, analyzing the factors that promote, stabilize, or disrupt it, as well as those that determine its impact. The Frankfurt-based cluster of the institute focuses particularly on the question of which concepts of cohesion are developed in these societies, how public debates and disputes about ideas of cohesion take place within them, and what political consequences arise from differing concepts of cohesion.
Centre for Advanced Studies "Justitia-Amplificata"
"examining fundamental questions of justice beyond the classical framework of ideal theories for a self-contained society"
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Justitia Amplificata ("Rethinking Justice - Applied and Global") is a Centre for Advanced Studies (Kolleg-Forschergruppe) at the Goethe-Universit盲t of Frankfurt am Main and the Free University of Berlin, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Centre constitutes a new forum for political theorists, philosophers, and empirical social scientists interested in normative, applied and interdisciplinary questions of justice. Its main goals are to bring together the theoretical and methodological perspectives of diverse approaches in political theory and philosophy with respect to normative debates about justice, and to investigate the question of how empirical research is relevant for how justice ought to be theorized. The Centre was founded in 2010 with a German Research Foundation (DFG) grant and is in the second phase of its eight year funding period. Justitia Amplificata is now well-established internationally as a research center on questions of justice at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt and the Free University of Berlin. |
Leibniz Award Research Group Transnational Justice
Leibniz Award Research Group at 看片软件 Frankfurt
The Leibniz Award Research Group Transnational Justice focuses on different aspects of a theory of transnational justice, from the grounds, uses and contours of the notion of justice within various social, political and philosophical contexts to the most important injustices of the current transnational order.
MA in Political Theory
"comprehensive analysis of the political present and its dynamics"
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In 2007, Professor Rainer Forst set up, together with Professor Peter Niesen, the consecutive and research-based Masters programme in Political Theory, which is offered jointly by 看片软件 Frankfurt and TU Darmstadt (Technical University of Darmstadt) and has an international focus. The programme is unique in Germany. Students attend courses and profit from the supervision available from the two universities involved, which jointly award the degree. In so doing, they are continuing the long-established Frankfurt tradition of critical and theoretical reflection on political and social order yet with a modern approach. The programme is embedded at both universities in the research context of the Cluster of Excellence 鈥淭he Formation of Normative Orders鈥�. It teaches the theoretical knowledge and academic skills necessary for a comprehensive analysis of the political present and its dynamics. Conceptions of justice, democracy and power are confronted with current problems of an increasingly complex world. |