Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #14 in the winter term 2025/26
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
diversity and plurality
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel
l’illusion d’une unité
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
articulate
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
city
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau