“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
“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
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
