Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #2 in the winter term 2025/26
Literature:
Priest, Graham. 1998. What is so bad About Contradictions? The Journal of Philosophy 95(8). 410–426.
sustained engagement
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
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
l’illusion d’une unité
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
decolonial scholarship
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke