Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025
every day
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
idea of democratic critique
“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff
diversity and plurality
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel
coherence in thought
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana
city
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau