Details
- ERC sector
- SH5 - Texts and Concepts
- ERC subsector
- SH5_9 - Ethics and its applications; social philosophy
- Project start date
- CUP
- D53D23019710001
- Financial support received
- €100.000,00
Description and purpose
The project aims to elaborate a new and extensive account of habits. The working hypothesis of the project is that a systematic investigation of habits’ cross-sectional and ambivalent nature, as well as of habits’ conditions of functionality, transformation, and relation with reflectivity and rationality, is necessary for developing an understanding of the social world and of contemporary social pathologies that is descriptively adequate, critically informed, and practically transformative.
Purpose
The research goal (RG) of the project is to elaborate a new and extensive account of habits for the sake of social transformation. Such a new account of habits intends to be sufficiently complex to critically explain the role habits play in agency as well as in the genesis, reproduction, and transformation of social phenomena, to account for the emancipatory potential of social agents, and to provide theoretical tools to elaborate efficient programs for social change.
Expected results
The project intends to develop an account of habits sufficiently extensive: 1. To descriptively account for the processes of habit formation and habituation running through the different levels of the social world; 2. To critically explain the role that habits play in agency as well as in the genesis, rigid maintenance, and transformation of social phenomena; 3. To account for the emancipatory potential of social agents; 4. to provide theoretical tools to elaborate efficient programs for social change.
Achieved results
The three units (Parma, Tor Vergata, Roma Tre) successfully carried out several research and dissemination activities. Parma organized workshops, seminars, international conferences, published a special issue, and held a Spring School. Tor Vergata hosted workshops with international scholars, joined conferences, and advanced the organization of an international congress and the Summer School. Roma Tre completed the literature review and organized seminars and research workshops.
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