Introduction to the special issue on contradictions.
In Aptum. Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik und Sprachkultur 20 (01), 5-12.
print
ISBN: 978-3-96769-433-8
DOI:
10.46771/9783967694345_1
prison of difference
“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht
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
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
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