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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
prison of difference

“‘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
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”

Norman Sieroka
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
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