Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
Literature:
Bergunder, Michael. 2022. Was ist Religion? Kulturwissenschaftliche Überlegungen zum Gegenstand der Religionswissenschaft. Zeitschrift für Religionswissen-schaft 19 (1–2). 3–55.
Bergunder, Michael. 2014. What is religion? The unexplained subject matter of religious studies. Method & theory in the study of religion 26(3). 246–286.
“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka