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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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
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
Is contradiction eurocentric?

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

Kerstin Knopf
driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”

Norman Sieroka
decolonial scholarship

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

Kerstin Knopf