Lecture at the Dreiländertagung Politikwissenschaft “Zeitenwende – Politik(Wissenschaft) in unsicheren Zeiten”
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
every day
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
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
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
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