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Covers the entire history of philosophy, from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, showing how individual philosophers have each grappled with a particular paradox.

Paradox --- Paradoxes --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Logic --- Figures of speech --- Contradiction --- Paradox. --- Paradoxes.

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Cervantes’s Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth itself? In a book that will revise the way we read and debate Don Quixote, Charles D. Presberg discusses the trope of paradox as a governing rhetorical strategy in this most canonical of Spanish literary texts. To situate Cervantes’s masterpiece within the centuries-long praxis of paradoxical discourse in the West, Presberg surveys its tradition in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the European Renaissance. He outlines the development of paradoxy in the Spanish Renaissance, centering on works by Fernando de Rojas, Pero Mexía, and Antonio de Guevara. In his detailed reading of portions of Don Quixote, Presberg shows how Cervantes’s work enlarges the tradition of paradoxical discourse by imitating as well as transforming fictional and nonfictional models. He concludes that Cervantes’s seriocomic ";system"; of paradoxy jointly parodies, celebrates, and urges us to ponder the agency of discourse in the continued refashioning of knowledge, history, culture, and personal identity.This engaging book will be welcomed by literary scholars, Hispanisists, historians, and students of the history of rhetoric and poetics.

Paradox in literature. --- Paradoxes in literature --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,

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Alle reden von Orientierung, aber seit Kant sind kaum Versuche gemacht worden, zu sagen, was das ist: Orientierung. Sie ist das Alltäglichste, mit dem wir zu tun haben, das Erste, von dem alles ausgeht, und das Letzte, zu dem wir zurückkommen, und als solches eine Frage der Philosophie. In Auseinandersetzung mit den großen Entwürfen der Philosophie klärt Werner Stegmaier die Bedingungen und Strukturen der alltäglichen Orientierung, in die auch sexuelle, politische, religiöse, ethische Orientierungen eingebettet sind, und schafft der Philosophie dabei neue Grundlagen. Geklärt werden die Bedingungen der Möglichkeit der Orientierung überhaupt, die Bedingungen der Orientierung an anderer Orientierung in Interaktion und Kommunikation, die Bedingungen der Orientierung in besonderen Orientierungssystemen wie der Ökonomie, den Massenmedien, der Politik, des Rechts, der Wissenschaft, der Kunst und der Religion, die Bedingungen der moralischen Orientierung und ihrer Selbstreflexion in der ethischen Orientierung, die Bedingungen der Weltorientierung in der globalisierten Kommunikation und schließlich die Bedingungen der Metaphysik, des Absehens von der Orientierung in der Orientierung. Die Philosophie der Orientierung schließt mit der Bedeutung des Todes für die Orientierung. Am Anfang stehen Vororientierungen zu den Bedingungen der Möglichkeit einer Philosophie der Orientierung, dem Vorkommen der Orientierung bei Tieren, Pflanzen und Teilchen und ihrer Entwicklung beim Menschen und zur Evolution des philosophischen Begriffs der Orientierung. Die Philosophie der Orientierung reicht weit über die Philosophie hinaus und bezieht auch eine Vielzahl von Fachwissenschaften ein. Sie hat dadurch zugleich Handbuch-Charakter. Sie wird künftig das Referenzwerk für alle philosophische Fragen der Orientierung sein.

Orientation (Psychology) --- Philosophy. --- Balance. --- Decision. --- Orientation. --- Paradoxes. --- Plausibility.

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This book explores the major paradoxes of Russian literature as a manifestation of both tragic and ironic contradictions of human nature and national character. Russian literature, from Pushkin and Gogol to Chekhov, Nabokov and to postmodernist writers, is studied as a holistic text that plays on the reversal of such opposites as being and nothingness, reality and simulation, and rationality and absurdity. The glorification of Mother Russia exposes her character as a witch; a little man is transformed into a Christ figure; consistent rationality betrays its inherent madness, and extreme verbosity produces the effect of silence. The greatest Russian writers were masters of spiritual self-denial and artistic self-destruction, which explains many paradoxes and unpredictable twists of Russian history up to our time.

Paradox in literature. --- Russian literature --- Russian literature. --- History and criticism. --- Paradoxes in literature

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With a career spanning more than fifty years as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual, Édouard Glissant produced an astonishingly wide range of work, including poems, novels, essays, pamphlets, and theater. In Think Like an Archipelago, Michael Wiedorn offers a fresh interpretation of Glissant's work as a cohesive and explicitly philosophical project, paying particular attention to the last two decades of his career, which have received much less attention in the English-speaking world despite their remarkable productivity. Focusing his study on the idea of paradox, Wiedorn argues that it is fundamental to Caribbean culture and thought, and at the heart of Glissant's philosophy.The question of difference has long played a central role in the literary and philosophical traditions of the West, however to think differently, Glissant suggests focusing elsewhere: on the post-plantation societies of the Caribbean, and the Americas more broadly. For Glissant, paradoxical lessons drawn from the natural and cultural realities of the Caribbean can point to new ways of thinking and being in the world: in other words, to the creation of what Glissant calls a "new category of literature," and in turn to the attainment of his utopian political vision. Thinking through such paradoxes, Wiedorn demonstrates, can offer new perspectives on the old questions of totality, alterity, teleology, and the potential of philosophy itself.

Paradox in literature. --- Contradiction in literature. --- Paradoxes in literature --- Glissant, Édouard,