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On Paradox : The Claims of Theory /
In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century. She attributes the ubiquity of paradox in the humanities to its appeal as an incisive tool for expo...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Paradox
- 1 All That Is Solid Melts into Paradox: The Idea of Modernity
- 2 Ontologizing the Paradoxes of Rights, or the Anti-Legalism of Theory
- Interlude. Anatomy of Paradox, or a Brief History of Aesthetic Theory
- 3 Redeeming Rights, or the Ethics and Politics of Paradox
- 4 The Politics of Exclusion
- 5 The Pedagogy of Paradox
- Interlude. A Different Kind of Theory
- 6 What Holds Things Together: Toward an Integrative Criticism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index