Collaborative Research Center 1285 "Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of disparagement"
The Collaborative Research Center 1285 focuses on phenomena of vituperation and disparagement, of humiliation and derision. Under the umbrella term "invectivity", researchers aim to develop a new perspective in cultural research in order to make apparent, across its individual contexts, the preconditions and effects of degrading-destructive communication. Thirteen projects in total and a broad spectrum of studies, ranging from antiquity to the present, will provide the empirical basis for an analysis of invectivity’s complex constellations.