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
articulate
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
problem to be solved
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
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