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Dialectics, dialogics and other ways of reading us

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In this response to Reis’s and Zuss’s responses to our meditation on the grotesque, we attempt to draw distinctions between positivist, empiricist, and realist (including grotesque realist) projects. We also, drawing on Bakhtin, consider the difference between dialogic and dialectic commentary.

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  1. University of Washington-Tacoma, 1900 Commerce Street, Campus Box: 358435, Tacoma, WA, 98402-3100, USA

    Matthew Weinstein

  2. The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, USA

    Matthew Broda

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Weinstein, M., Broda, M. Dialectics, dialogics and other ways of reading us. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 4, 799–801 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-009-9187-4

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