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The Laboratory for Education and Society (LES) conducts research on three issues in our contemporary society. They examine how modern technologies shape our reality (virtuality and digitization), which paradoxes evoke increasing pluralism (cohesion and pluralisation), and what it means that our society is characterized by competence development (competition and professionalisation).

The digitization of information sources and research methods exerts an ever increasing influence on the various disciplines within the domain of Literature and Philosophy. For several years, researchers have clustered internationally around the emerging field of "Digital Humanities" (DH) to investigate how the technological development of new digital resource series and research methods can broaden and renew the domain of Arts and Philosophy. ...