Contradiction Studies

Law and (its) Contradictions

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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).

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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
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
prison of difference

“‘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
sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”

Norman Sieroka
Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart