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

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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 […]

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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

earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau

problem to be solved

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

paradox

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

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

city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau