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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –
Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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  • GRK Contradiction Studies Logo
    Un/certain Times for the ‘NaturalOrder’? Queer-Feminist Critiques of Authoritarian Phantasms and Emancipatory Rebuttals

    Panel at the ECPG (European Consortium on Politics and Gender) 2024.

    Carolin Zieringer (RTG Contradiction Studies & InIIS),
    Panel
    07/10/2024–07/10/2024
    U Gent

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    Zur Methode der Widerspruchsoffenheit

    Congress Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty

    Prof. Martin Nonhoff (RTG Contradiction Studies und InIIS), Christian Leonhardt (InIIS), Samia Mohammed & Carolin Zieringer (RTG Contradiction Studies)
    Panel
    09/28/2023
    11:00 am–1:00 pm
    U Bremen

power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”

Gisela Febel
sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”

Norman Sieroka
articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”

Martin Nonhoff
driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”

Norman Sieroka
l’illusion d’une unité

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

Ingo H. Warnke