DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

Associated Docs

Former Associated Docs

Jan Bartsch
Jan Schulze Buschoff
Jody Danard
Jan Dittrich
Lilli Hasche
Hanna Schwamborn
Helen Stephan
Jonas Trochemowitz

articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff

sustained engagement

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

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

paradox

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

city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau