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Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0815346697
- ISBN-13 : 978-0815346692
- Author: Rostam J. Neuwirth
What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant change, soft law, substantive due process, pure law, bureaucratic efficiency and global justice have in common? What connections do they share with innumerable paradoxes, like the ones of happiness, time, globalization, sex, and of free will and fate?
Law in the Time of Oxymora provides answers to these conundrums by critically comparing the apparent rise in recent years of the use of rhetorical figures called “essentially oxymoronic concepts” (i.e. oxymoron, enantiosis and paradoxes) in the areas of art, science and law. Albeit to varying degrees, these concepts share the quality of giving expression to apparent contradictions. Through this quality, they also challenge the scientific paradigm rooted in the dualistic thinking and binary logic that is traditionally used in the West, as opposed to the East, where a paradoxical mode of thinking and fuzzy logic is said to have been cultivated.
Table contents:
1. Prologue: The Quest for Light
2. Introduction
3. From Essentially Contested to Oxymoronic Concepts
4. Essentially Oxymoronic Concepts in Art and Science
5. Oxymora in the Law
6. Change of Language or Language of Change?
7. Law in the Time of Oxymora: Just Injustice?
8. Cognition: Mind the Change or Change the Mind?
9. Law for the Time of Oxymora: Mnemonic Law
10. Concluding Remarks
11. Epilogue: A New Era of Light
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