Contradiction Studies

Like oil and water? Religion and Science

Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies)& Yan Suarsana (RTG Contradiction Studies)

07/21/2022 5:45 pm 7:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Readings:

Bergunder, Michael. 2016.»Religion« and »Science«Within a Global Religious History. In Aries–Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 16, 86–141.

Subramaniam, Banu. 2019. Holy Science: The Biopolitcs of Hindu Nationalism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Chap.3: ›Return of the Native: Nation, Nature, and Postcolonial Environmentalism‹, 113–140.

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hierarchy of norms

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
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
Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf
every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”

Gisela Febel