Elizabeth S. Anker

On Paradox

The Claims of Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

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 theoryâ s commitment to social justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018971
• ISBN-10: 1478018976
• Artikelnr.: 63511858

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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