Contradiction Studies

Unpacking Coloniality. Towards a Critical Engagement with Modern Discourse

Prof. Lewis R. Gordon (U Connecticut)

06/20/2023 10:00 am 1:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2

Moderated by Prof. Rozena Maart (U Kwa-Zulu Natal, RTG Contradiction Studies)

Please register for the Workshop by E-Mail: shk.grk2686@uni-bremen.de

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problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
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
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
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