Toolbox in the winter term 2025
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
sustained engagement
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
idea of democratic critique
“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff
every day
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke