Blogpost about Panel 5 Verunsicherung einer ’natürlichen‘ Ordnung. (Queer-)feministische Un/Gewissheiten at the Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty Congress. With contributions by Helen Stephan and Carolin Zieringer (RTG Contradiction Studies).
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf
“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
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke