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Dialectic and Paradox

Configurations of the Third in Modernity

by Ian Cooper (Volume editor) Bernhard Malkmus (Volume editor)
©2013 Edited Collection VI, 259 Pages

Summary

From Hegel to the present, the humanities and social sciences have revealed the volatile power of third agency. Systems of thought and practice are often disturbed by the presence of a figure that exceeds traditional binary oppositions. The articles in this volume trace the role of these triadic figures across a broad range of discourses in social theory, philosophy and science studies. Modernity emerges as a mode of system-formation, perpetuation and self-reflection that is deeply rooted in the dynamics of dialectic and paradox.
The volume offers an approach which is both systematic and genealogical, providing innovative perspectives on such major thinkers as Adorno, Agamben, Derrida, C. S. Peirce, the Romantics and Simmel as well as phenomena like the psychology of jealousy and envy, the epistemic status of scientific images and conceptions of metabolism. It is the first attempt to look at configurations of the third as a paradigm for the ‘unfinished project of modernity’ (Habermas).

Details

Pages
VI, 259
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783035304473
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034307147
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0447-3
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (April)
Keywords
philosophy self-reflection humanities social sciences
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013. 259 pp., 2 b/w fig., 2 tables

Biographical notes

Ian Cooper (Volume editor) Bernhard Malkmus (Volume editor)

Ian Cooper is Lecturer in German at the University of Kent, England. He is the author of numerous publications on modern German and English literature and intellectual history. Bernhard F. Malkmus is Assistant Professor of German at the Ohio State University, USA. His research focuses on ethical, social and cultural aspects of modernity.

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