Spaces of Dissension

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. The Challenge of Contradictions: Thinking Through Spaces of Dissension

   • Julia Lossau, Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Ingo H. Warnke

   Pages 1-16

3. Contradiction in Narrative and Discursive Orders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Knowledges and Contradictions in Premodern Narratives

      • Elisabeth Lienert

      Pages 19-37

   3. Ghostwriting and its Contradictions, Or: Meet the Trumps

      • Carsten Junker, Marie-Luise Löffler

      Pages 39-66

   4. A Blob with Aplomb

      • Ingo H. Warnke, Daniel Schmidt-Brücken

      Pages 67-95

4. Contradiction in Interpersonal Communication and Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Family Structure and Ownership Transition as “Polar Opposites”: An Emotional Embeddedness Perspective

      • Carolin Decker-Lange

      Pages 99-111

   3. Negotiated Contradictions—Contradictory Negotiations: Tensions and Requirements in Education Reform from the Perspective of Educational Sciences

      • Sabine Doff, Till-Sebastian Idel

      Pages 113-126

   4. Religion Beyond Secularisation Theories: Contradictional Findings of the Study of Religion in a (Post-)Modern World

      • Gritt Klinkhammer, Petra Klug, Anna Neumaier

      Pages 127-147

5. Contradiction, Power and Governmentality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Beyond a Binary Approach: Contradictions and Strict Antinomies

      • Stefan Müller

      Pages 151-168

   3. Governmentality and the Autonomous Subject: Persistent Contradictions in Philosophies of (Language) Education

      • Barbara Schmenk

      Pages 169-189

6. Contradiction in Territorial Orders and Infrastructures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Making a Living from Everyday Contradictions

      • Henryk Alff, Anna-Katharina Hornidge

      Pages 193-213

   3. Creative Cities: On Handling Contradictions in Contemporary Urban Planning

      • Anna-Lisa Müller

      Pages 215-235

   4. (In)Visible and (Un)Homely : Underground Infrastructures as Spaces of Dissension

      • Julia Lossau

      Pages 237-255

7. Back Matter

   Pages 257-259

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This volume focusses on contradiction as a key concept in the Humanities and Social Sciences. By bringing together theoretical and empirical contributions from a broad disciplinary spectrum, the volume advances research in contradiction and on contradictory phenomena, laying the foundations for a new interdisciplinary field of research: Contradiction Studies. Dealing with linguistic phenomena, urban geographies, business economy, literary writing practices, theory of the social sciences, and language education, the contributions show that contradiction, rather than being a logical exemption in the Aristotelian sense, provides a valuable approach to many fields of socially, culturally, and historically relevant fields of research.

• Contradiction
• Humanities
• Cultural Studies
• Contradiction Studies
• Social Sciences

• Institute of Geography, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Julia Lossau

• German Linguistics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Ingo H. Warnke

Julia Lossau is professor of Human Geography at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Daniel Schmidt-Brücken is a postdoctoral researcher in German Linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany. 

Ingo H. Warnke is professor of German and Interdisciplinary Linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany. 

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