On Paradox
The Claims of Theory
1st Edition
Published on 28. October 2022
376 pages
978-1-4780-2360-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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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.
Content
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
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
