Descripción del proyecto
Más allá de la división entre Oriente y Occidente: una historia de Europa con la salud como el bien común
¿Qué es Europa? Al estudiar la Europa de posguerra se suele prestar especial atención a las divisiones ideológicas, los modelos económicos opuestos y los diferentes sistemas políticos que distancian a Europa Occidental y Oriental. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos LEVIATHAN cuestiona las interpretaciones existentes, divididas entre Oriente y Occidente, de la identidad europea. En lugar de estudiar por separado las dos mitades de la Europa de posguerra, quiere comprender Europa como una unidad. El proyecto propugna que la historia europea se caracteriza por la preocupación por la salud como el bien común. Al tomar la medicina como una lupa analítica, desarrollará una historia común de Europa que vaya más allá de la típica dicotomía Oriente-Occidente. LEVIATHAN adopta un enfoque multidisciplinario: no se centran ni en la economía, ni en la política, ni en la ideología, ni en la vida cotidiana, pues solo integrando todas estas perspectivas podremos comprender la búsqueda del bien común europeo.
Objetivo
What is Europe? The status of the European Leviathan is in doubt today as never before. Whether in the form of authoritarian governments or populist agitation, there is intense contention over what the role, size, and scope of the state in the 21st century should be. What can a historical account tell us about the European Leviathan then and now? What holds our European community together?
Amid this uncertainty our project calls attention to a common concern for the health of the individual and the well-being of the social body. We argue that post-war European history on each side of the so-called Iron Curtain is characterized by a preoccupation with health as the common good. Taking medicine as an analytical lens offers a common reference point through which a shared and integrated history of Europe can be developed beyond the usual clichés and dichotomies of the period. That is the unusual but promising argument that underlies our project.
Our project is distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach: Neither economics nor politics nor ideology nor everyday life, but an integration of these perspectives makes it possible to pursue the development of the common good both, in state socialism and in the capitalist state. To do this, we propose a multi-layered investigation of medicine, which came to represent a significant—if not the decisive—institutional, conceptual and legitimating framework for all efforts towards the common good.
Thus, on the one hand, the life sciences’ claim to universal truth offers a privileged perspective beyond the usual oppositions of ideology, economic and political systems. On the other hand, medicine is socially, politically, economically, technologically and culturally determined more than nearly any other field of our modern life. The innovative approach of our project goes beyond our heuristic methodology. Rather than merely studying postwar Europe’s two halves separately we aim to understand Europe as one.
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ERC-SyG - Synergy grantInstitución de acogida
10117 Berlin
Alemania