Contradiction Studies

Law and (its) Contradictions

Lilli Hasche (RTG Contradiction Studies) und Nils Kohlmeier (RTG Contradiction Studies)

11/22/2022 2:30 pm 4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

Readings

Brown, Wendy. 2002. Suffering the Paradoxes of Rights. In Brown, Wendy & Janet Halley (eds.) Left Legalism/Left Critique, 420–434. Durham: Duke University Press. [Dt.: Brown, Wendy. [2002] 2011. Die Paradoxien der Rechte ertragen. In Menke, Christoph, Franceska Raimondi (eds.) Die Revolution der Menschenrechte: grundlegende Texte zu einem neuen Begriff des Politischen, 454–473. Berlin: Suhrkamp.]

Supplementary Readings

Austermann, Nele. 2021. Recht der Diversität. In Fischer-Lescano, Andreas, Peter Sperlich (eds.), Landesrecht Bremen, 302–208. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Erbguth, Wilfred, Annette Guckelberger. 2018. Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht mit Verwaltungsprozessrecht und Staatshaftungsrecht, 340–416. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Fischer-Lescano, Andreas. 2021. From Strategic Litigation to Juridical Action. In Saage-Maaß, Miriam, Peer, Zumbansen & Michael Baader & Palvasha Shahab (eds.) Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains: The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice, 299–312. Heidelberg: Springer.

Luhmann, Niklas. 2003. Die Paradoxie des Entscheidens. In Balke, Friedrich, Gregor Schwering & Urs Stäheli (eds.) Paradoxien der Entscheidung: Wahl/Selektion in Kunst, Literatur und Medien, 17– 56. Bielefeld: transcript.

Markard, Nora, Laura Adamietz. 2011. Keep it in the Closet? Flüchtlingsanerkennung wegen Homosexualität auf dem Prüfstand. In KJ Kritische Justiz 44 (3), 294–302. https://doi.org/10.5771/0023-4834-2011-3-294

Teubner, Gunther. 2003. Der Umgang mit Rechtsparadoxien: Derrida, Luhmann, Wiethölter. In Joerges, Christian, Gunther Teubner (eds.) Rechtsverfassungsrecht: Recht-Fertigung zwischen Privatrechtsdogmatik und Gesellschaftstheorie, 25–46. Baden-Baden: Nomos. (abrufbar unter: https://www.jura.uni-frankfurt.de/42828772/Generic_42828772.pdf).

Back to overview
paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
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
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke
city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”

Julia Lossau
coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana