Contradiction Studies

Contradictions in Dialectics

Gisela Febel & Martin Nonhoff (RTG Contradiction Studies)

06/16/2022 4:15 pm 5:30 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

Textgrundlage | Readings

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1986/1813] 2021. Wissenschaft der Logik 2. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 46–80. [Engl.: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1813] 2010. The Science of Logic. Translated by George di Giovanni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 361–385.]

Marx, Karl. [1859] 1971. Vorwort zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie. In Marx Engels Werke (MEW), Band 13. Berlin: (Karl) Dietz Verlag, 7–11. [Engl.: Marx, Karl. [1859] 1977. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. With some notes by R. Rojas. Moscow: Progress Publishers, ›Preface‹.]

Weiterführende Literatur | Supplementary Readings

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1813/1986] 2022. Wissenschaft der Logik I. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 82–115. [Engl.: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1813] 2010.The Science of Logic. Translated by George di Giovanni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 59–82.]

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driver

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

Norman Sieroka
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
interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
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
problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff