Widersprüchliche Lebenswelten: Das tschechoslowakische Exil in Wien 1968-1989
Colloquium for Modern History and Historical Migration Research, University of Osnabrück
Colloquium for Modern History and Historical Migration Research, University of Osnabrück
“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”
Ingo H. Warnke
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano