Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025
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
city
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
paradox
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
Is contradiction eurocentric?
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf