Contradiction Studies

Discourses in Contradiction

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Anna Mattfeldt (RTG Contradiction Studies) & Ingo H. Warnke (RTG Contradiction Studies)

07/21/2022 4:15 pm –5:30 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Readings:

Felder, Ekkehard. 2006. Semantische Kämpfe in Wissensdomänen. Eine Einführung in Benennungs-,Bedeutungs-und Sachverhaltsfixierungs-Konkurrenzen. In Felder, Ekkehard (ed.), Semantische Kämpfe. Macht und Sprache in den Wissenschaften, 13–46. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

Foucault, Michel. 1969. L’archéologie du savoir. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, Chap. 3: ›Les contradictions‹, 195–204. [Eng.: The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books, Chap. 3: ›Contradictions‹, 149–156. Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language (monoskop.org)(17.05.2022)]; [Ger.: 1981. Archäologie des Wissens. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, Kap. 3: ›Die Widersprüche‹, 213–223.]

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l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke
hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
driver

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

Norman Sieroka
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
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