The History of African Philosophy as a Site of Contradictions

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

The History of African Philosophy as a Site of Contradictions

Talk

05/04/2023 4:15 pm –5:45 pm

U Bremen GW1 A 0150 & online

Lindokuhle Shabane

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Fellow: Dr. Debora Nyangulu

Guest: Dr. Jonathan Chimakonam | University of Pretoria | South Africa

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hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

articulate

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

paradox

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

earthing

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

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