Contradiction Studies – Exploring the Field

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Contradiction Studies: Exploring the Field. An Introduction

   • Gisela Febel, Kerstin Knopf, Martin Nonhoff

   Pages 1-74

3. Conceptual Work on Contradiction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-76

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   2. Conjunctive Paraconsistency: A Pre-Logical Introduction

      • Franca d’Agostini

      Pages 77-120

   3. Contradictions of Form, Forms of Contradiction: Affordance as an Epistemological Tool

      • Wolfgang Funk

      Pages 121-134

4. Language, Linguistics, Contradiction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-138

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   2. Felt Realities? Contradictory Argumentation in Verbal Political Discourse in Switzerland

      • Fabienne Tissot

      Pages 139-161

   3. Counter Speech: Practices of Contradiction on Hate Speech and their Effects

      • Liriam Sponholz

      Pages 163-181

   4. Staging Contradiction in French Oral Speech: A Peculiar Discursive Phenomenon

      • Griselda Drouet

      Pages 183-199

   5. Errors and Innovations in L2 Varieties of English: Towards Resolving a Contradictory Practice

      • Marcus Callies

      Pages 201-214

5. Contradiction in Literature

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-217

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   2. United We Stand? The Antinomy of Self Unity versus Multiplicity as Manifested in the Figure of the Doppelgänger

      • Michal Tal

      Pages 219-234

   3. Contesting Spaces of Knowledge: Reproduction, Medicine and Literature

      • Jennifer S. Henke

      Pages 235-258

   4. Women and Science in Tracy Chevalier’s Historical Novel Remarkable Creatures (2009)

      • Christine Müller

      Pages 259-276

   5. “Embodied Minds” and Intersubjectivity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works

      • Diana Wagner

      Pages 277-293

6. The Politics of Contradiction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-298

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   2. The Barbarism of the Dialectic: Antagonizing Bruno Latour and Postcritique

      • J. Jesse Ramírez

      Pages 299-313

   3. The Image and Its Ban—A Contradictory Twosome at the Heart of All Symbolic Orders

      • Jens Kabisch

      Pages 315-332

   4. European Union Cultural History: The ‘Paradoxical Coherence’ of Nationalism and Supranationalism as an Object of Research in Contradiction Studies

      • Peter Pichler

      Pages 333-345

   5. Capitalizing Contradiction, Capitalizing the Commons: Big Tech’s Neoliberal Commonsense and Marx’s “General Intellect”

      • Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich

      Pages 347-367

“Contradiction” is a core concept in the humanities and the social sciences. Beside the classical ideas of logical or dialectical contradiction, instances of “lived” contradiction and strategies of coping with it are objects of this study. Contradiction Studies discuss the many ways in which explicit or implicit contradictions are negotiated in different political or cultural settings. This volume collects articles that tackle the concept of contradiction, practices of contradicting and lived contradictions from a number of relevant perspectives and assembles contributions from linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, and media studies.

• Contradiction
• Contradiction Studies
• Dialectical contradiction
• Antagonism
• Logical contradiction
• Coping with contradictions
• Contradictions in cultural settings
• Contradictions in political settings
• Contradictions in linguistics
• Contradictions in literary studies
• Contradictions in philosophy
• Contradictions in political science
• Contradictions in media studies

• Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Gisela Febel, Kerstin Knopf, Martin Nonhoff

Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel is Professor Emerita for Romance Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen.

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf is Professor for North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen.

Prof. Dr. Martin Nonhoff is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bremen.

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