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

Cover von Research in African Literatures "Namwali Serpell´s the old Drift Disruption"

Introduction. Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption

Article / Paper

Dr. Deborah Nyangulu

2022

Research in African Literatures 53(3). 1-22. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/900030

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paradox

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

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

Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf

driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka

coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana