Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #2 in the winter term 2025/26
Literature:
Priest, Graham. 1998. What is so bad About Contradictions? The Journal of Philosophy 95(8). 410–426.
decolonial scholarship
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
paradox
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
every day
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel