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

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

decolonial scholarship

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

problem to be solved

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

paradox

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

hierarchy of norms

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

name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke