Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #4 in the winter term 2025/26
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
problem to be solved
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
sustained engagement
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
Is contradiction eurocentric?
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf