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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ideal of a contradiction-free world

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prison of difference

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l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke