Zur Methode der Widerspruchsoffenheit – Contradiction Studies

Zur Methode der Widerspruchsoffenheit

Prof. Martin Nonhoff (RTG Contradiction Studies und InIIS), Christian Leonhardt (InIIS), Samia Mohammed & Carolin Zieringer (RTG Contradiction Studies)

09/28/2023 11:00 am –1:00 pm

U Bremen

Chair: Prof. Frank Nullmeier (U Bremen)

Christian Leonhardt (InIIS): „Poetik der Theorie. Widersprüchliche Erzählungen und aktivistische Theorieproduktion“

Samia Mohammed (RTG Contradiction Studies): „Freiheit und ihre Widersprüche. Widerspruchsoffenes Theoretisieren als Methode einer Freiheitstheorie der Gegenwart“

Martin Nonhoff (RTG Contradiction Studies und InIIS): „Die Politische Theorie als agonales Feld. Wieso nicht jede Form der Theorie jedes politisch-theoretische Problem lösen muss“

Carolin Zieringer (RTG Contradiction Studies): „Politische Theorie, die sich sorgt: was widerspruchsoffene radikaldemokratische Theorie von Fürsorgepraxen lernen könnte“

Congress Politische Theorie in Zeiten der Unsicherheit

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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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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

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

relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”
Ingo H. Warnke

problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff

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