Contradiction Studies

The Power of the Powerless

Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg (RTG Contradiction Studies)

11/01/2022 2:30 pm 4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

Readings

Havel, Václav. 1985. The Power of the powerless. In Havel, Václav, John Keane & Steven Lukes (eds.), The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the state in central-eastern Europe, 23–96. London: Routledge.

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paradox

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”

Michi Knecht
space

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

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
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