Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #5 in the winter term 2025/26
sustained engagement
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
prison of difference
“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht
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
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka