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

“Perdre le Nord“: literary subject constructions in the narrative imagined space of the North in French Canadian contemporary literatures from Québec, Acadie and autochtonous territories

Internal, Talk

Jody Danard (RTG Contradiction Studies), Helen Stephan (RTG Contradiction Studies), Prof.Dr. Karen Struve (University Bremen)

1/31/2023
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

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idea of democratic critique

“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff

driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka

problem to be solved

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

space

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

Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf