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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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Spokespeople of the RTG

Spokespeople of the RTG

  • 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 Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke
    Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke
    Spokesperson of the RTG
    German and Interdisciplinary Linguistics
space

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

Julia Lossau
paradox

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
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
articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”

Martin Nonhoff