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

Longing and Belonging in Black African diasporic Literature written in French and Spanish

Internal, Talk

Nelson Sindze Wembe (RTG Contradiction Studies), Maren Schwarz (RTG Contradiction Studies), Dr. Dorothy Odartey-Wellington (University of Guelph)

1/31/2023
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

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problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff

paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

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

articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff