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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –
Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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Mercator Fellows

Among several international scholarly guests and cooperation partners, three distinguished international researchers cooperate closely with the RTG in their role as Mercator-Fellows.

  • Portraitfoto Prof. Rozena Maart
    Prof. Rozena Maart
    Mercator-Fellow
    Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, U of Kwa Zulu Natal
  • Portraitfoto Prof. Graham Priest
    Prof. Graham Priest
    Mercator-Fellow
    Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, CUNY
  • Portraitfoto Prof. Banu Subramaniam
    Prof. Banu Subramaniam
    Mercator-Fellow
    Professor and Chair of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, U of Massachusetts Amherst
hierarchy of norms

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke
decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

Kerstin Knopf
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
l’illusion d’une unité

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

Ingo H. Warnke