Contradiction Studies – Exploring the Field

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“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. Contents List of Tables 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