Rememberance as a Social Norm? Paradoxes of Collective Memory in a Post-Migrant Society

Dr. Katrin Antweiler (RTG Contradiction Studies), Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel (University Bremen), Dr. Sina Arnold (TU Berlin)

01/24/2023 2:30 pm 4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

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city

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

Julia Lossau
l’illusion d’une unité

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

Ingo H. Warnke
problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau
sustained engagement

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

Norman Sieroka