All about Contradictions

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

06/02/2022 4:15 pm –7:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

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.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/contradiction/ (18.05.2022).

Peckhaus, Volker. 2004. Widerspruchsfreiheit. In Ritter, Joachim, Karlfried Gründer & Gottfried Gabriel (eds.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie 12, 700–703. Darmstadt: WBG.

Weiss, Heinz. 2004. Widerstand. In Ritter, Joachim, Karlfried Gründer & Gottfried Gabriel (eds.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie 12, 703–714. Darmstadt: WBG.

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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
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
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
Afterlife of colonialism

“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
city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”

Julia Lossau