Externalisierte Unfreiheit: “The Afterlives of Slavery” als Brennglas ungleicher Freiheit
Talk at the Bremen Colloquium on Political Theory
Talk at the Bremen Colloquium on Political Theory
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
“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
“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
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff