Welcome back! In this Welcome session, we will look back on the summer semester 2026, reflect on key outcomes, and discuss ideas for the upcoming winter semester. We will explore central themes of the Workspace program, set priorities, and identify questions to guide our discussions in the months ahead.
We look forward to a productive start to the semester!
“‘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
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau