Writing a dissertation is not easy. Writing a dissertation on “The Art of Simplicity” (Leuphana University of Lüneburg) is doubly challenging. It says: “Today a lot is complex, so complex that we increasingly long for simplicity. But when we are faced with concepts of simplicity and the complexity has supposedly been overcome, the far-reaching question arises as to whether there is anything more complex than simplicity. ”After 200 pages, the question is then answered in the concluding remarks:“ The far-reaching thoughts make handling the simplicity has not necessarily gotten easier. In the present work, the simplicity in its complexity and in its extreme richness has continuously increased, and in the process threatened to evade the clear view again and again. ”Our conclusion:So it remains complicated.
We also find a complicated sentence in “The energy transition in the Bundestag” (Leuphana University of Lüneburg). It reads as follows: "The direction in which the phantasmatic narrative 'ecological modernization' works and the political practices that show up in its context are due to the system-external approach - outside of economic structures - the procedural-political measures and the low future relevance of the dominant promise of happiness, which aims to preserve the current prosperity, to be classified as reformist to persistent. ”The author wants to demonstrate that the blindness of the hegemonic discourse formation for structural causes of the crisis can be understood and justified on the basis of the identification and classification of fantasy narratives. Every reader can find out for himself whether this has been successful.We didn't succeed.
Involvement in inequality relationships
Research is not always easy, as we learn in the dissertation “Escape as a survival strategy” (University of Innsbruck): “As a privileged white scientist, when dealing with the resistant practices of marginalized people who experience racism, I also deal with the problem of my own involvement confronted with this inequality. ”The work was created anyway. Because it sees itself as a contribution to a resistant practice of knowledge production, which, beyond historical constructions of us and the others, attempts to “unmask polarizing thought patterns with the help of the perspectives and narratives of refugee migrants”. The author invents the term “refugee migrants” and states a European border and migration regime with massive violence.However, it does not only want to explain and classify, but also to pursue “intervening science”. So that means doing politics somehow.
You can almost take a deep breath when it says laconically and convincingly in the dissertation “The Concept of Revolt in Albert Camus” (LMU Munich): “I wanted to show this position by Camus on the philosophers of existential philosophy without giving it in detail investigate or comment on, for some methodological reason. The way Camus deals with these philosophers, the way he treats the philosophical sources, is, to put it mildly, not optimal. ”Congratulations on so much chutzpah! Especially since the way the author uses punctuation marks is not ideal either. Let's switch to the University of Bonn. The doctoral parents there should have intervened in this half-sentence about the death toll from the Second World War (60 to 80 million people) for two reasons:"The reign of terror of the National Socialists not only resulted in the lives of six million innocent people". In addition, the dissertation "On the justification and scope of human dignity using the example of the People's Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran" shines with numerous other mistakes that we can avoid here.