Readings
Havel, Václav. 1985. The Power of the powerless. In Havel, Václav, John Keane & Steven Lukes (eds.), The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the state in central-eastern Europe, 23–96. London: Routledge.
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
decolonial scholarship
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
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
sustained engagement
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka