BIBFRAME Work

Title

Paradox

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Vine, Tom (author)

Subject

• Organizational sociology (LCSH)
• Paradox (LCSH)
• Ethnology (LCSH)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• DDC: 302.3/5 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: HM711 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life's paradoxes. But what if these attempts miss the point? What if paradox is life? Contrary to the supposedly sublime linear logic that underpins our prevalent modes of theoretical and empirical enquiry, in this fascinating book organizational anthropologist, Tom Vine, charts the pervasiveness of paradox across the academy: from arithmetic to zoology. In so doing, he reflects on the concept of paradox as a widespread existential 'pattern', a pattern which holds significant metatheoretical and pedagogical potential. Paradoxes, he argues, are not inconveniences or 'fault lines in our common-sense world' but are coded into our very existence. Paradoxes thus present their own vital logics that shape our lives: they thwart moral and ideological uniformity; they even out subjective experience between 'the haves' and 'the have nots'; and they shed light on the opaque concepts of consciousness and agency. This book will appeal to anybody with a curious mind; particularly scholars and students with an interest in one or more of the following: complexity theory, critical pedagogies, ethnography, nonlinear dynamics, organization theory, systems theory"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Vine, Tom. Paradox

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• Date: 2026-09-11T20:18:49.865577+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23242364

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• Date: 2026-09-11
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• Description language: eng
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