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

RTG member Klaas Anders featured in two new podcast episodes on his research

RTG member Klaas Anders can currently be heard in two podcasts:

In the podcast of the Institute of History at the University of Bremen, he talks about the migration experiences of signatories of Charter 77 and their new beginnings in Vienna.

He is also a guest on the Radio Prague International podcast, where he discusses the Czechoslovak exile in the Federal Republic of Germany, thereby providing insights into his doctoral project.

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ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht

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

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

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