Fatou Sillah | Fachgebiet Just Transitions, U Kassel
Lilli Hasche | RTG Contradiction Studies
Panel Initiativen im Land Bremen
Tagung Der Elefant im Raum, organisiert von Bremen’s Colonial History Working Group.
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“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
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana