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.
Among several international scholarly guests and cooperation partners, three distinguished international researchers cooperate closely with the RTG in their role as Mercator-Fellows.
“‘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
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
