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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –
Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel
    Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel
    Romance Literatures and Cultural Studies
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischer-Lescano
    Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischer-Lescano
    Law
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht
    Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht
    Spokesperson of the RTG
    Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf
    Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf
    North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Lienert
    Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Lienert
    Literature of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Julia Lossau
    Prof. Dr. Julia Lossau
    Human Geogaphy | Urban Geography
  • Portrait photo Dr. Anna Mattfeldt
    Dr. Anna Mattfeldt
    German Linguistics
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Martin Nonhoff
    Prof. Dr. Martin Nonhoff
    Political Theory
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg
    Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg
    History
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Dr. Norman Sieroka
    Prof. Dr. Dr. Norman Sieroka
    Philosophy
  • Prof. Dr. Karen Struve, 1. Sprecherin des GRK 2686Foto (c) WFB Bremen/Jan Rathke
    Prof. Dr. Karen Struve
    Spokesperson of the RTG
    French and Francophone Studies
  • Portrait photo Yan Suarsana
    Prof. Dr. Yan Suarsana
    Global History of Christianity
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke
    Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke
    Spokesperson of the RTG
    German and Interdisciplinary Linguistics
  • Portrait Prof. Dr. Tyler Zoanni
    Prof. Dr. Tyler Zoanni
    Sociocultural Anthropology
power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”

Gisela Febel
driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”

Norman Sieroka
interstice

“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
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
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