Anker On Paradox

The Claims of Theory
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2360-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Elizabeth S. Anker contends that the faith in the logic of paradox has been the watermark of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century, showing how paradox generates the very exclusions it critiques and undercuts theory’s commitment to social justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anker, Elizabeth S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: On Paradox 1
1. All That Is Solid Melts into Paradox: The Idea of Modernity 29
2. Ontologizing the Paradoxes of Rights, or the Anti-legalism of Theory 73
Interlude. Anatomy of Paradox, or a Brief History of Aesthetic Theory 112
3. Redeeming Rights, or the Ethics and Politics of Paradox 138
4. The Politics of Exclusion 181
5. The Pedagogy of Paradox 221
Interlude. A Different Kind of Theory 261
6. What Holds Things Together: Toward an Integrative Criticism 266
Notes 313
Bibliography 335
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth S. Anker is Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University, coeditor of Critique and Postcritique, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature.