Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: On Paradox 1
5. 1 All That Is Solid Melts into Paradox: The Idea of Modernity 29
6. 2 Ontologizing the Paradoxes of Rights, or the Anti-Legalism of Theory 73
7. Interlude. Anatomy of Paradox, or a Brief History of Aesthetic Theory 112
8. 3 Redeeming Rights, or the Ethics and Politics of Paradox 138
9. 4 The Politics of Exclusion 181
10. 5 The Pedagogy of Paradox 221
11. Interlude. A Different Kind of Theory 261
12. 6 What Holds Things Together: Toward an Integrative Criticism 266
13. Notes 313
14. Bibliography 335
15. Index 349