Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #8 in the winter term 2025/26
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
prison of difference
“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht
limits
“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel
problem to be solved
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
diversity and plurality
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel