The academic coordinator is responsible for the conceptual and strategic direction and planning of the RTG. At the same time, he is the person doctoral and post-doctoral fellows can contact with any questions they may have during their time at the RTG.
University of Bremen
DFG Research Training Group 2686 “Contradiction Studies”
Grazer Straße 2, Room 0161
28359 Bremen, Germany
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
“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
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel
“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