Contradiction Studies

Agentiver und Nonagentiver Widerspruch. Eine Kartographie der linguistischen Widerspruchsforschung

Contribution

Jonas Trochemowitz

2024

Publication of the U Bremen und U Vienna international student conference »Debattieren, Opponieren, Protestieren – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf sprachliche Praktiken des Widersprechens« 2023.

In ThemaTalkers (Lara Berlage, Julian Engelken, Peter Ernst, Jan Hensellek, Lara Herford, Louis Hypius, Sargis Poghosyan, An- gelina Schellin, Susanne Sophie Schmalwieser & Ingo H. Warnke) (eds.), Debattieren, Opponieren, Protestieren. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf sprachliche Praktiken des Widersprechens, 66–81. Universität Bremen.

DOI:
doi.org/10.26092/elib/3137.

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diversity and plurality

“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”

Gisela Febel
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
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“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
paradox

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano