The History of African Philosophy as a Site of Contradictions

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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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

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power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
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interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

decolonial scholarship

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

sustained engagement

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

space

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