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Exploring Contradictions beyond Contradiction

Contradictions are omnipresent and the identification of contradictions is usually accompanied by the imperative to resolve them. Contradictions can be ascribed to individual actions as well as to social formations. They extend to all areas…

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RTG Contradiction Studies

Conference

02/11/2025–02/14/2025

U Bremen

Past Events

All about Contradictions

Hintergrundliteratur | Background Readings Angehrn, Emil. 2004. Widerspruch. In Ritter, Joachim, Karlfried Gründer & Gottfried Gabriel (eds.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie 12, 687–699. Darmstadt: WBG. Horn, Laurence R. 2018. Contradiction. In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.),…

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Michi Knecht & Ingo H. Warnke (SprecherIn des GRK | Spokespersons of RTG)

Internal, Talk

06/02/2022

4:15 pm–7:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030
Bänkelsang to a binaural beat. The issue, the method of delivery, agnotology and the contradiction of selling ‘rodenticide’

We (Laura Ziegler & Dean E. Stephanus) invite you to think with us as we invoke the legacy of the bench singers “Bänkelsang” that were active in the region that would become Germany from at…

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Laura Ziegler & Dean E. Stephanus

Talk

01/20/2025
Colloquium Contradiction Studies

Maren Schwarz & Helen Stephan (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

01/20/2025

4:15 pm–5:14 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel

every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel

coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana

decolonial scholarship

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

sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka