Internally funded project
Start date : 01.08.2012
End date : 31.12.2017
A post-Foucauldian history of ideas for the 21st century aims at breaking the illusion of a seemingly fixed, holistic concept of curiosity, striving teleologically from original sin to a celebrated character trait of intellectuals, as Hans Blumenberg described it. Developing an innovative metaphor for Lovejoy's original unit ideas at work, this project traces their variability through time, individual philosophical system, and dogmatisation.