Lecture as part of the Colloquium Contradiction Studies
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
hierarchy of norms
“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
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