Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #1 in the winter term 2025/26
Is contradiction eurocentric?
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf
power and resistance
“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
paradox
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
articulate
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff