Portraitfoto Katharina Biskup

Katharina Biskup

The office manager Katharina Biskup is responsible for the general administration of the RTG and the person for doctoral and post-doctoral fellows to contact in these matters.

University of Bremen
DFG Research Training Group 2686 “Contradiction Studies”
Grazer Straße 2, Room 0160
28359 Bremen, Germany

+49 (0)421 218-67860

Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf
driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”

Norman Sieroka
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“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
sustained engagement

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

Norman Sieroka
l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke