Contradiction Studies

Readings: Felder, Ekkehard. 2006. Semantische Kämpfe in Wissensdomänen. Eine Einführung in Benennungs-,Bedeutungs-und Sachverhaltsfixierungs-Konkurrenzen. In Felder, Ekkehard (ed.), Semantische Kämpfe. Macht und Sprache in den Wissenschaften, 13–46. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. Foucault, Michel. 1969. L’archéologie du savoir. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, Chap. 3: ›Les contradictions‹, 195–204. [Eng.: The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books, Chap. 3: […]

Anna Mattfeldt (RTG Contradiction Studies) & Ingo H. Warnke (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Talk, Internal

07/21/2022

4:15 pm–5:30 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Like oil and water? Religion and Science

Readings: Bergunder, Michael. 2016.»Religion« and »Science«Within a Global Religious History. In Aries–Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 16, 86–141. Subramaniam, Banu. 2019. Holy Science: The Biopolitcs of Hindu Nationalism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Chap.3: ›Return of the Native: Nation, Nature, and Postcolonial Environmentalism‹, 113–140.

Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies)& Yan Suarsana (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Textuality of Contradiction

Contradiction Studies und literaturwissenschaftliche Mediävistik | Contradiction and Medieval Literary Studies (Vortrag Elisabeth Lienert) Poetische Ambiguitäten und Rhetorik des Widerspruchs | Poetic Ambiguities and Rhetorics of Contradiction (close readings with Gisela Febel)

Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies)& Elisabeth Lienert (RTG Contradiction Studies)

»Either you are the victim of a wrong, or you are not. «(Jean-François Lyotard)»

Readings: Lyotard, Jean-François. 1983. Le Différend. Paris: Minuit, 9–19. [Engl.: 1988. The Differend. Phrases in Dispute. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, xi–6.]; [Ger.:1989.Der Widerstreit. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 9–21.] Supplementary Readings: Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari. 1975. Kafka. Pour une littérature mineure. Paris: Minuit, Chap. 3: ›Qu’est-ce qu’une littérature mineure?‹, 29–50. [Engl.: 1986. Kafka. Towards […]

Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Mobilizing Contradiction: Methods as Tools. For Example: Ethnography/ Praxeography/ Walking

Readings: Verran, Helen. 2021. Writing an Ethnographic Story in Working towards Responsibly Unearthing Ontological Trouble. In Ballestro, Andrea & Brit Ross Wirthereik (eds.), Experimenting with Ethnography. A Companion To Analysis, 235–245. Durkham: Duke University Press. https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/110829/9781478091691_Ballestero_Experimenting_with_Ethnography.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (17.05.2022). Vogel, Else. 2021. Juxtaposition. Differences that Matter. In Ballestro, Andrea & Brit Ross Wirthereik(eds.), Experimenting with Ethnography. A […]

Michi Knecht (RTG Contradiction Studies) & Ingo H. Warnke (RTG Contradiction Studies)

»Paying attention to contradictions ›allows an argument to take off in one direction by rendering another (direction of argument) also present‹« (Marilyn Strathern)

Readings Bartole, Tomi. 2020. The Ontological Antinomy. Food, Surfaces, and Transcendence in the Village of Awim, Papua New Guinea. In HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10(3), 874–889. https://doi.org/10.1086/711879 (17.05.2022). Mol, Annemarie. 2002. TheBodyMultiple: Ontology inMedicalPractice. Durham: Duke University Press,Chap. 4:›Distribution‹, 87–118.

Michi Knecht (RTG Contradiction Studies)

»The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). How to decolonize contradiction»

Readings Da Costa Marques, Ivan. 2021. Decolonizing Knowledge Devices. In Andrea Ballestero & Brit Ross Winthereik (eds.).Experimenting with Ethnography. A Companion to Analysis, 219–234. Durham: Duke University Press. https://andreaballesterodotcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/ballesterowinthereik-2021-experimenting_with_ethnography.pdf (25.05.2022). Maart, Rozena. 2020. Introduction – Decoloniality and Decolonial Education: South Africa and the World. In Alternation 33, 15– 44. Mignolo, Walter D. 2007. DELINKING. The […]

Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies), Michi Knecht (RTG Contradiction Studies)& Kerstin Knopf (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Contradictions in Dialectics

Textgrundlage | Readings Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1986/1813] 2021. Wissenschaft der Logik 2. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 46–80. [Engl.: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1813] 2010. The Science of Logic. Translated by George di Giovanni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 361–385.] Marx, Karl. [1859] 1971. Vorwort zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie. In Marx Engels Werke (MEW), Band 13. Berlin: […]

Gisela Febel & Martin Nonhoff (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Hegemony and Antagonism

Readings Laclau, Ernesto & Chantal Mouffe. 1985. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy– Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso, 93–148. [Ger.: Laclau, Ernesto & Chantal Mouffe. [1985] 2015. Hegemonie und radikale Demokratie. Wien: Passagen, 125–183.] Supplementary Readings Mouffe, Chantal. 2000. The Democratic Paradox. London: Verso,›Introduction: The Democratic Paradox‹, 1–16, Chap. 5: ›A Politics without Adversary?‹, 108–129 […]

Martin Nonhoff (RTG Contradiction Studies)

»Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.« (Ibn Sīnā)

Readings Aristoteles. 1990. Metaphysik. Buch Gamma. In der Übersetzung von Friedrich Bassenge. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 72–102. [Engl.: Aristotle. [1971] 1993. Metaphysics. Books Gamma, Delta, Epsilon. Translated and with Notes by Christopher Kirwan, 1–26 (book gamma), notes 75–121.] Heraklit. Fragment Nr. 10. | Heraclitus. Fragment No. 10. Supplementary Readings Gottlieb, Paula. 2019. Aristotle on Non-contradiction. In Zalta, […]

Gisela Febel & Martin Nonhoff (GRK Contradiction Studies)

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