Mittelweg 36. Zeitschrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung 2(2016)
ISBN: 978-3-86854-736-8
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
diversity and plurality
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel
limits
“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka