DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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Working with Concepts as ›Tools‹ (Werkzeug / Mittel / Instrument) and ›Devices‹ (Gerät / Vorrichtung / Apparat) – Towards a Mixed Bag Theory for Contradiction Studies?

Wählen und lesen Sie einen der drei Titel | Chose and read one out of three Bal, Mieke. 2009. Working with Concepts. In European Journal of English Studies 13(1), 13–23. Ruppert, Evelyn S. 2012. Category. In Celia Lury & Nina Wakeford (eds.), Inventive Methods. The Happening of the Social,36–47. London/New York: Routledge. Leigh Star, Susan […]

Michi Knecht (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Talk, Internal

06/09/2022

5:45 pm–7:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030
All about Contradictions

Hintergrundliteratur | Background Readings Angehrn, Emil. 2004. Widerspruch. In Ritter, Joachim, Karlfried Gründer & Gottfried Gabriel (eds.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie 12, 687–699. Darmstadt: WBG. Horn, Laurence R. 2018. Contradiction. In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/contradiction/ (18.05.2022). Peckhaus, Volker. 2004. Widerspruchsfreiheit. In Ritter, Joachim, Karlfried Gründer & […]

Michi Knecht & Ingo H. Warnke (SprecherIn des GRK | Spokespersons of RTG)

Talk, Internal

06/02/2022

4:15 pm–7:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel

Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf

space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau

Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)
Rozena Maart