{"product_id":"on-paradox-9781478016335","title":"On Paradox","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The novelty of [Anker’s] approach is to identify theory’s style of thought with a fatal attraction to paradox, to something that appears absurd or contradictory but is actually true. . . . Anker illuminates both why theory has migrated so effectively beyond the academy and also how its self-replicating endlessness gives a startling large-scale intellectual uniformity to the pronouncements of elite institutions and right-wing conspiracists alike.” -- Michael W. Clune * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: On Paradox  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. All That Is Solid Melts into Paradox: The Idea of Modernity  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ontologizing the Paradoxes of Rights, or the Anti-legalism of Theory  73\u003cbr\u003e Interlude. Anatomy of Paradox, or a Brief History of Aesthetic Theory  112\u003cbr\u003e 3. Redeeming Rights, or the Ethics and Politics of Paradox  138\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Politics of Exclusion  181\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Pedagogy of Paradox  221\u003cbr\u003e Interlude. A Different Kind of Theory  261\u003cbr\u003e 6. What Holds Things Together: Toward an Integrative Criticism  266\u003cbr\u003e Notes  313\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  335\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409001619799,"sku":"9781478016335","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478016335.jpg?v=1730505050","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-paradox-9781478016335","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}