Individual Research Projects
Each member of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Jewish Moralistic Writings of the Early Modern Period" is working on an individual monographic study that focuses on key aspects of early modern musar. These include questions such as how formerly highly technical and esoteric rituals were adopted and transformed into practices of everyday life; how emotions such as shame, disgust, or fear were used as rhetorical devices to educate their audiences; or how an internalized ethical perspective that focuses on behavior, self-discipline, and the relevance of human agency goes hand in hand with an externalized concern with the collective experience of the individual as part of a multitude.