Contradiction Studies

Contradictions in Dialectics

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Gisela Febel & Martin Nonhoff (RTG Contradiction Studies)

06/16/2022 4:15 pm –5:30 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

Textgrundlage | Readings

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1986/1813] 2021. Wissenschaft der Logik 2. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 46–80. [Engl.: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1813] 2010. The Science of Logic. Translated by George di Giovanni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 361–385.]

Marx, Karl. [1859] 1971. Vorwort zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie. In Marx Engels Werke (MEW), Band 13. Berlin: (Karl) Dietz Verlag, 7–11. [Engl.: Marx, Karl. [1859] 1977. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. With some notes by R. Rojas. Moscow: Progress Publishers, ›Preface‹.]

Weiterführende Literatur | Supplementary Readings

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1813/1986] 2022. Wissenschaft der Logik I. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 82–115. [Engl.: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1813] 2010.The Science of Logic. Translated by George di Giovanni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 59–82.]

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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
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau
Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf
paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
coherence in thought

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

Yan Suarsana