Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #9 in the winter term 2025/26 – Workspace: internal workshop
limits
“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel
paradox
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
city
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
articulate
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
Is contradiction eurocentric?
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf