In Konrad Schmid (ed.) Heilige Schriften in der Kritik. XVII. Europäischer Kongress für Theologie (5.-8. September 2021 in Zürich). 643-658. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.
power and resistance
“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel
l’illusion d’une unité
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
sustained engagement
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
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