“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
“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
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
