Post-Docs & Docs

The doctoral and post-doctoral fellows are at the heart of the RTG with their projects on Contradiction Studies from various disciplinary backgrounds of the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, and legal studies. The first cohort comprises more than 20 international docs and post-docs and includes DFG-funded fellows, associated fellows, bridge scholarship holders as well as guests of the RTG.

Post-Docs

Dr. Deborah Nyangulu

Post-Doc

Literary, Media & Cultural Studies

Associated Post-Docs

Dr. Katrin Antweiler

Associated Post-Doc

Cultural Studies

Associated Docs

Docs

Former Docs

Hanna Schwamborn

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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Is contradiction eurocentric?

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

ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht

problem to be solved

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

space

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

idea of democratic critique

“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff