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

Book Series »Contradiction Studies«

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Contradiction Studies

Putting contradiction center stage, this series aims at challenging simplistic conceptualizations of the contradictive. The series editors agree that contradictions are not necessarily about being resolved but that they rather provide starting points for polyphonic conversations.

Book Series »Contradiction Studies«

Brühne, Julia, Yan Suarsana & Ingo H. Warnke
Wissenschaftsfreiheit im Widerspruch

Die Autor*innen analysieren aus Perspektiven unterschiedlicher Disziplinen aktuelle Diskurse um das kontroverse Feld der Wissenschaftsfreiheit. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Rekonstruktionen unterschiedlicher Diskursperspektiven und sozialer Positionierungen. Die Beiträge nähern sich dem Thema sowohl durch eine theoretische Konzeptualisierung von Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftsfreiheit – juristisch, politologisch und diskursanalytisch – […]

Book Series »Contradiction Studies«, Edited Volume

WOC GradNet

2026
Einleitung

Wissenschaftsfreiheit betrifft uns alle. Sowohl Personen außerhalb der Wissenschaft, insofern sie vom gesellschaftlichen Einfluss wissenschaftlichen Handelns betroffen sind, als auch diejenigen, die selbst wissenschaftlich tätig sind. Dieses Betroffen-Sein tritt im wissenschaftlichen Alltag häufig in den Hintergrund; Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist schließlich nicht das Ziel oder Ergebnis wissenschaftlicher […]

Book Series »Contradiction Studies«, Article / Paper

WOC GradNet

2026
Cancel Culture als Positionierungsvehikel im semantischen Kampf um Wissenschaftsfreiheit

When debating academic freedom in Germany, the term cancel culture, originating from North-American contexts, is commonly used to express concerns about a threat to academic freedom as posed by a narrowing of boundaries of discourse. In the semantic battels regarding Wissenschaftsfreiheit (academic freedom), this perspective […]

Book Series »Contradiction Studies«, Article / Paper

Lara Herford

2026

coherence in thought

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

problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff

prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
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