Contradiction Studies – Exploring the Field

Contents
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Contradiction Studies: Exploring the Field. An Introduction
1 The Law of Non-Contradiction and the Plurality of Concepts of Contradiction
1.1 Contradiction as a Travelling Concept
1.2 Thinking Contradiction as a “Weak Concept”
1.3 Contradiction as a Language-Game and the Question of Inconsistency
1.4 Michel Foucault—Contradiction, Power, and Resistance
1.5 Plural Concepts of Contradiction—Beyond Western/Northern Traditions
2 Aspects of Contradiction
2.1 Contradiction and Dialectics
2.2 Figures of Thought
2.3 Specific Discourses of Contradiction
2.4 Living in/with Contradictions
3 Contradiction Studies as a Research Program
References
Conceptual Work on Contradiction
Conjunctive Paraconsistency: A Pre-Logical Introduction
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 What is a Contradiction?
3 What is a True Contradiction?
3.1 And?
3.2 Why Dial?
3.3 Why Non-Adj and Conj?
4 The Pre-Logical Plausibility of Conjunctivism
4.1 Epistemic Gluts
4.2 Discussive Contradictions
4.3 Practical Conflicts
4.4 Semantic Contradictions
4.5 The Metaphysics of True Contradictions
5 Some Logical Consequences
5.1 Explosion
5.2 Borders
5.3 Double Double Truth
6 What Does ‘True’ Mean?
6.1 The Simplest Theory of Truth
6.2 Exact Truth
6.3 Truth as a Pre-Logical Concept
7 Summary and Concluding Remarks
References
Contradictions of Form, Forms of Contradiction: Affordance as an Epistemological Tool
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Procedures of Truth: Materialist vs. Idealist Epistemologies
3 Forms of Contradiction
4 Concluding Contradiction
References
Language, Linguistics, Contradiction
Felt Realities? Contradictory Argumentation in Verbal Political Discourse in Switzerland
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Swiss European Policy and the Swiss Discourse on Switzerland and Europe
3 Contradiction in Interaction
4 Topoi and Frames in Verbal Argumentation
4.1 Complex Patterns of Topoi in Interaction
4.1.1 Topoi
4.1.2 Frames
5 Analysis I: Contradictions Within Argument Structures
6 Analysis II: Contradicting Frames in Interaction
7 Felt Realities in Interaction—Contradictions or Not?
References
Counter Speech: Practices of Contradiction on Hate Speech and their Effects
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Contradiction
3 Hate Speech
4 Media as Field of Contradiction
5 Hate Speech and Contradiction
6 Contradiction in a Media Controversy: The Case Oriana Fallaci
6.1 Practices of Contradiction
6.2 Effects of Contradiction
7 Conclusions
References
Staging Contradiction in French Oral Speech: A Peculiar Discursive Phenomenon
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Staging Contradiction in French Oral Speech: 3 Possibilities
2.1 A Peculiar but Nonetheless Common Enunciative Phenomenon
2.2 Three Different Ways to Stage Contradiction in Discourse from a Linguistic Perspective
2.2.1 First Type of Staged Contradiction: The Polemical Contradiction
2.2.2 Second Type of Staged Contradiction: The Illustrative Contradiction
2.2.3 Third Type of Staged Contradiction: The Factual Contradiction
3 The Argumentative Dimension
3.1 The Theatrical like Surrounding
3.2 An Argumentative Dimension: Contradiction Marks in Discourse
4 A Relevant Argumentative Direction
4.1 Staging a Controversial Contradiction: A Pragmatic Effect of Alètheia: Revealing the Truth in Oral Speech
4.2 Staging an Illustrative Contradiction: A Narrative Exemplum
4.3 Staging a Factual Contradiction: Denunciating by Exposing Facts
5 Conclusion
References
Errors and Innovations in L2 Varieties of English: Towards Resolving a Contradictory Practice
Abstract
1 Identifying, Describing, and Challenging the Contradiction
2 The Constructs of Contradiction: Errors and Innovations
3 Towards Resolving the Contradiction
References
Contradiction in Literature
United We Stand? The Antinomy of Self Unity versus Multiplicity as Manifested in the Figure of the Doppelgänger
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Self-Unity vs. Multiplicity from a Philosophical Perspective
3 Self-Unity vs. Multiplicity from a Psychoanalytical Perspective
4 Literature’s Potential Contribution to the Question of Self Unity vs. Multiplicity
5 Conclusion
References
Contesting Spaces of Knowledge: Reproduction, Medicine and Literature
Abstract
1 Defining Contradiction: Science, Space, and Contestation
2 Heterotopia(s) of Contestation: Childbirth Now and Then
3 Birth Narratives as Literary Knowledge Arenas: Myths, Midwifery, and Mothers
4 Conclusion: The Birth Room as a Crisis Heterotopia
References
Women and Science in Tracy Chevalier’s Historical Novel Remarkable Creatures (2009)
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 From Historiography to Historical Fiction: The History of Women in Science
3 Women in Nineteenth Century British Geology
4 Women, Science, and Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures
5 Conclusion
References
“Embodied Minds” and Intersubjectivity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Outlining the Mind-Body Question
3 The Mind-Brain Question and the ‘4Es’ Model of the Mind
4 “How Psyche Becomes Soma”
5 Embodied Intersubjectivity
6 Concluding Remarks
References
The Politics of Contradiction
The Barbarism of the Dialectic: Antagonizing Bruno Latour and Postcritique
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Why Does Latour Think Critique Has Run Out of Steam?
3 Why Has Latour Run Out of Steam?
4 Conclusion
References
The Image and Its Ban—A Contradictory Twosome at the Heart of All Symbolic Orders
Abstract
1 Not All Bans are Equal
2 The Hypermodern Ban of the Genus ‘Image’
3 On the Misleading Pretense of a Homo Universalis Sine Effigies
4 Iconoclastic Controversy of 726
5 Negatio Negationis, Aniconism and Liberty
References
European Union Cultural History: The ‘Paradoxical Coherence’ of Nationalism and Supranationalism as an Object of Research in Contradiction Studies
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Contradiction in Cultural History
3 Contradiction in European Union Cultural History
4 Introducing the Theory of ‘Paradoxical Coherence’ to Map European Union Cultural History as Field in Contradiction Studies
5 Conclusion
References
Capitalizing Contradiction, Capitalizing the Commons: Big Tech’s Neoliberal Commonsense and Marx’s “General Intellect”
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 The Circuits of Drive and the Exploitation of Communication
3 Big Tech and the Neoliberal State
4 General Intellect, Dispossession, and Commons
5 Neoliberal Commonsense: Microsoft’s Cybercrime Campaign
6 Conclusion
References
Index