Post-Docs & Docs

The doctoral and post-doctoral fellows are at the heart of the RTG with their projects on Contradiction Studies from various disciplinary backgrounds of the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, and legal studies. The first cohort comprises more than 20 international docs and post-docs and includes DFG-funded fellows, associated fellows, bridge scholarship holders as well as guests of the RTG.

Post-Docs

Docs

space

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

Julia Lossau
decolonial scholarship

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

Kerstin Knopf
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)”

Gisela Febel
coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana
sustained engagement

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

Norman Sieroka