Faculty of Philosophy Religion, Society, and World Relations Knowledge, Spaces, and Media Research

Property and habit. On the political anthropology of ownership in Western modernity

Subproject in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project is dedicated to the political anthropology of ownership between the eighteenth and early twentieth century. It investigates an assumption that is widespread in the humanities: that ownership structures bring about the formation of specific habits.

Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024

Project management

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kleeberg

Holder of the Chair for the History of Science (Historisches Seminar)

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Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow

Holder of the professorship Wissenskulturen der Europäischen Neuzeit (Faculty of Philosophy)

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martin.mulsow@uni-erfurt.de

Team

Dr. Mikkel Munthe Jensen

Anna Möllers

Dr. phil. Dirk Schuck

Main project

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The project's central hypothesis, which stems from the dichotomy between nomadism and permanent settlement, is the belief that private ownership gives rise to good habits, such as self-discipline, making it beneficial to the development of civilisation.

It juxtaposes the academic history of the corresponding positions and their incorporation into various patterns of interpretation and logics of development, ranging from the theory of the four humours to the psychology of peoples, with a Governmentality-based historical analysis of government through ownership.

Property research history of science