Contradiction Studies

Perspectives of Human Rights Clauses in Free Trade Agreements of the EU

Nils Kohlmeyer (RTG Contradiction Studies), Jan Schulze Buschoff (RTG Contradiction Studies), Dr. Sebastian Eickenjäger (University Bremen)

12/13/2022 4:30 pm 6:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

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name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
paradox

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
l’illusion d’une unité

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

Ingo H. Warnke
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