Memory and Morals in Transnational Constellations

Dr. Katrin Antweiler (RTG Contradiction Studies) & Dr. Thomas van de Putte (King’s College London)

01/16/2024 2:30 pm 4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online

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city

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

Julia Lossau
hierarchy of norms

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
sustained engagement

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

Norman Sieroka
l’illusion d’une unité

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

Ingo H. Warnke
paradox

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano