Intro -- Contents -- The Challenge of Contradictions: Thinking Through Spaces of Dissension -- 1 Contradictions of Modernity -- 2 Discarding an Old Specter -- 3 Toward an Alternative Perspective on Contradictions -- 4 Situatedness and the Making of Contradictions -- 5 Language as a Medium of Contradiction -- 6 Fields of Contradiction Studies -- References -- Part I Contradiction in Narrative and Discursive Orders -- Knowledges and Contradictions in Premodern Narratives -- Abstract -- 1 Contradictions in a Medievalist and Narratological Perspective -- 2 Knowledge, Tradition, and Contradiction -- 2.1 Accumulation and Levelling of Contradictions in the Heroic Epic -- 2.2 Accumulation and Levelling of Contradictions in Romances of Antiquity -- 3 Construction and Deconstruction of Knowledge and Meaning in Contradictory Narrative -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Ghostwriting and its Contradictions, Or: Meet the Trumps -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction: Contradicting Trumpism -- 2 The Ghostwriter in (American) Literature -- 3 Ghost/Writing Contradictions -- 3.1 In/Visibility -- 3.2 In/Authenticity -- 3.3 Power/Lessness -- 4 Coda: Trumpist Ghostwriting Turned on Its Head -- References -- A Blob with Aplomb -- Abstract -- 1 Blobbing the Box -- 2 Dimensions and Principles of Contradiction in Discourse-Linguistic Contradiction Studies (DLCS) -- 2.1 Methodological Relations in DLCS -- 2.2 Conceptual Properties of Discursive Events in DLCS -- 2.3 Analytical Objects in DLCS -- 2.3.1 Example 1: Inconsistencies of Claims, or: Implicit Contradictions of Critique -- 2.3.2 Example 2: Explicit Contradictions and False Fronts -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Contradiction in Interpersonal Communication and Institutions -- Family Structure and Ownership Transition as "Polar Opposites": An Emotional Embeddedness Perspective -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction.

2 Instrumental Logic of Action and Ownership Transition Processes -- 3 Beyond Family Structure: Emotional Embeddedness -- 3.1 The Limitations of an Instrumental Logic of Action -- 3.2 Alternative Principles of Action -- 4 Implications and Future Directions -- References -- Negotiated Contradictions-Contradictory Negotiations: Tensions and Requirements in Education Reform from the Perspective of Educational Sciences -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Antinomies of Teaching in Reformed Instruction -- 3 Subject-Specific Perspectives on the Development of Diversity-Sensitive Teaching -- 3.1 Overview: Cultural Learning in Lower Secondary I English Teaching -- 3.2 Design: Targets-Object-Principles-Learning Route -- 3.3 (Preliminary) Results -- 4 Conclusion: Dealing with Contradictions in Teaching Negotiation Processes -- References -- Religion Beyond Secularisation Theories: Contradictional Findings of the Study of Religion in a (Post-)Modern World -- Abstract -- 1 Contradicting Theories of Religion and Secularisation -- 2 Tracing Contradictions in Fields of Religion -- 2.1 Interreligious Dialogue Activities in Germany -- 2.2 Religion and Non-religion in the United States -- 2.3 Salafism in Europe -- 3 Theorising Contradictions in the Study of Religion -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Part III Contradiction, Power and Governmentality -- Beyond a Binary Approach: Contradictions and Strict Antinomies -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Is a Contradiction? -- 3 The Liar Paradox as Strict Antinomy -- 4 The Negative Dialectical Approach -- 5 Within and Beyond the Law of Noncontradiction: Strict Antinomies and the Negative Dialectical Approach -- 5.1 Internal Mediation as Internal Contradiction -- 5.2 Internal Mediation as Transition into the Opposite -- 5.3 Internal and External Contradictions -- 5.4 Self-reference -- 5.5 The Negation of Self-reference.

5.6 Oscillation Between Self-reference and Its Negation as Feedback Loop -- 5.7 The Simultaneity of Domination and Liberation Within the Concept -- 5.8 Normativity Within the Concept -- 5.9 Conceptual Openness -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Governmentality and the Autonomous Subject: Persistent Contradictions in Philosophies of (Language) Education -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction: Autonomy and Education -- 2 Current Views of Autonomy in (Language) Education -- 2.1 Autonomy and Foreign Language Education -- 2.2 Autonomy and Lifelong Learning -- 3 Contradictions and Complexities -- 3.1 Contradictory Conceptualizations of Autonomy -- 3.2 The Autonomy Paradox -- 3.3 The Educational Paradox -- 4 Governmentality, Autonomy, and Education: Reframing Contradictions in Educational Discourse -- 4.1 Governmentality -- 4.2 Governmentality and Education -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part IV Contradiction in Territorial Orders and Infrastructures -- Making a Living from Everyday Contradictions -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Geographical and Socio-Historical Background -- 3 Ordering and Bordering: Conceptual and Methodological Reflections -- 4 Everyday Contestations in Water Management and Cross-Border Trade -- 5 Contradictory (B)ordering? -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Creative Cities: On Handling Contradictions in Contemporary Urban Planning -- Abstract -- 1 Creative Cities: A Broad Field of Research -- 2 Planning the Creative City -- 2.1 The Changing Role of Urban Planners -- 2.2 The Strategies of Creative City Planning -- 3 Addressees of Creative City Planning -- 4 Creative Cities' Multiple Realities -- 4.1 Contradictions Within Urban Planning -- 4.2 Contradictions on the Ground: The Case of Redesigning Old Sites and Buildings -- 5 Beyond Contradictions: On Methodological Consequences -- References.

(In)Visible and (Un)Homely: Underground Infrastructures as Spaces of Dissension -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The (In)Visibility of Infrastructure -- 3 The Underground as Place of the Unhomely -- 4 "The City Under the City" -- 4.1 Imagining Underground Infrastructure as Functioning Simplification -- 4.2 "Making Homely" a Place Invested with the Risk of Malfunctioning -- 5 The Uncanny (das Unheimliche) and the Homely (das Heimliche) -- 6 AMFORA/Amphora -- References -- Index.

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