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Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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  • Working Paper "Einrichtungsantrag Contradiction Studies – Konstellationen, Heuristiken und Konzepte des Widersprüchlichen, Lesefassung"
    Working Paper “Einrichtungsantrag Contradiction Studies – Konstellationen, Heuristiken und Konzepte des Widersprüchlichen, Lesefassung”

    The Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies researches the formation, negotiation and explanatory limits of contradiction.The point of departure is the assumption that the ordering figure of contradiction with the imperative to resolve contradictions is often in tension with everyday experiences of contradictions in living […]

    Monograph, Working Paper Series
    Febel, Gisela, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Michi Knecht, Kerstin Knopf, Elisabeth Lienert, Julia Lossau, Anna Mattfeldt, Martin Nonhoff, Susanne Schattenberg, Norman Sieroka, Yan Suarsana & Ingo H. Warnke
    2023

articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”

Martin Nonhoff
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”

Michi Knecht
l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke
Is contradiction eurocentric?

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

Kerstin Knopf
diversity and plurality

“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”

Gisela Febel