DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

“Perdre le Nord“: literary subject constructions in the narrative imagined space of the North in French Canadian contemporary literatures from Québec, Acadie and autochtonous territories

Internal, Talk

Jody Danard (RTG Contradiction Studies), Helen Stephan (RTG Contradiction Studies), Prof.Dr. Karen Struve (University Bremen)

1/31/2023
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

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prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht

paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka

driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka

city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau