Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025
sustained engagement
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
interstice
“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
city
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
earthing
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau