Dialectic and Paradox: Configurations of the Third in Modernity: 19 (Cultural History & Literary Imagination) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3034307144 ISBN 13: 9783034307147

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2013

Synopsis

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).

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3034307144
• ISBN 13: 9783034307147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 265
• Editor: Cooper Ian, Malkmus Bernhard