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Leiden an Unwahrheiten? Warum wir Wahrheit brauchen. Eine Diskussion zwischen Michael Hampe, Olivia Erna Maegaard Nielsen, Tammo Lossau und Jonas Trochemowitz

Michael Hampe (ETH Zürich), Olivia Erna Maegaard Nielsen (GradNet WOC), Tammo Lossau (U Bremen) & Jonas Trochemowitz (GRK Contradiction Studies)

02/11/2025 7:00 pm –9:00 pm

Haus der Wissenschaft Olbers-Saal

People suffer from contradictions and untruths. Against the background of this observation, Michael Hampe has developed a pragmatist concept of truth, which he believes can explain our striving for truth better than traditional theories of truth. But what does it mean, in this understanding, to suffer from untruths and to search for truths? Why is truth politically and socially relevant? The event will present and discuss these and other questions in the context of Hampe’s conception of truth practices.

Admission is free. If you have any questions, please contact Olivia Erna Maegaard Nielsen (ol_ni@uni-bremen.de) and Jonas Trochemowitz (trochemo@uni-bremen.de).

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Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

Kerstin Knopf
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
every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”

Gisela Febel
diversity and plurality

“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”

Gisela Febel
decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

Kerstin Knopf