Contact

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies
University of Bremen, „Worlds of Contradiction“
Grazer Straße 2, 28359 Bremen
Germany

Accessibility: Grazer Straße 2

E-Mail: grk2686@uni-bremen.de

    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
    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
    hierarchy of norms

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

    Andreas Fischer-Lescano
    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