Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #8 in the winter term 2025/26
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
relational
“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”
Ingo H. Warnke
every day
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
l’illusion d’une unité
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
interstice
“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano