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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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l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke
Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart
decolonial scholarship

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

Kerstin Knopf
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
coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana