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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies
University of Bremen, „Worlds of Contradiction“
Grazer Straße 2, 28359 Bremen
Germany
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E-Mail: grk2686@uni-bremen.de
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
“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)
Rozena Maart