Publication in the “Archivale des Monats” series of the Research Center for Eastern Europe Studies Bremen.
Als Wien zum Zentrum des tschechoslowakischen Dissens‘ wurde. Bremen: Forschungsstelle Osteuropa. www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de
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
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
hierarchy of norms
“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
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
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau