Lecture at the Dreiländertagung Politikwissenschaft “Zeitenwende – Politik(Wissenschaft) in unsicheren Zeiten”
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf