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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problem to be solved

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

sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka

articulate

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

l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke

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