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.
