DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

Contradictions Festival

10 years Worlds of Contradiction

In fall 2025, Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) will be 10 years old. In cooperation with the DFG Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies, we cordially invite you to celebrate this anniversary together. An overview of the planned program as part of the 10 Years of WOC Contradictions Festival from November 11 – 14, 2025 can be found here. We would particularly like to draw your attention to the ceremony on November 12, 2025 from 18:30-22:00 in the Haus der Wissenschaft. We look forward to your participation and a stimulating festival!

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driver

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

paradox

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

problem to be solved

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

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

articulate

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