Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #14 in the winter term 2025/26
coherence in thought
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
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
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