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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problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff
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
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

Kerstin Knopf