CompLit Interview with Deborah Nyangulu

Deborah Nyangulu was interviewed by Sandra Folie & Gianna Zocco in the journal CompLit (pp. 187-191) for the issue on “Sketches of Black Europe in African and African Diasporic Narratives”.

The interview series is available open access:

DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-16076-2.p.0169

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hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
articulate

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

Martin Nonhoff
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
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
driver

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

Norman Sieroka