Textuality of Contradiction

Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies)& Elisabeth Lienert (RTG Contradiction Studies)

07/14/2022 4:15 pm 5:30 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Contradiction Studies und literaturwissenschaftliche Mediävistik | Contradiction and Medieval Literary Studies (Vortrag Elisabeth Lienert)

Poetische Ambiguitäten und Rhetorik des Widerspruchs | Poetic Ambiguities and Rhetorics of Contradiction (close readings with Gisela Febel)

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idea of democratic critique

“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”

Martin Nonhoff
problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”

Julia Lossau
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”

Michi Knecht
articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”

Martin Nonhoff