Mercator Fellows

Among several international scholarly guests and cooperation partners, three distinguished international researchers cooperate closely with the RTG in their role as Mercator-Fellows.

Prof. Rozena Maart

Mercator-Fellow

Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, U of Kwa Zulu Natal
Prof. Graham Priest

Mercator-Fellow

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, CUNY
Prof. Banu Subramaniam

Mercator-Fellow

Professor and Chair of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, U of Massachusetts Amherst

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

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limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel

hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

space

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

diversity and plurality

“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel

problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff