Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #3b in the winter term 2025/26
siehe | see #3b Summer Term 2025 for details
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
coherence in thought
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana
ideal of a contradiction-free world
“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht
Is contradiction eurocentric?
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf