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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –
Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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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
Is contradiction eurocentric?

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

Kerstin Knopf
coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana
l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke
problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff