For all its romantic contours, "The Fault in Our Stars" is centrally a dialectic about why people seek out stories, one that never quite takes a stand on the question of whether we're right to wish for greater clarity in our art, characters we can "relate" to, or, for that matter, a happy ending.
Prologue: On Art and Science, Two Kinds of Arts, Logic as a Science, Logic as an Art, i.e., Dialectics, and Why It Is So Called.
It's the backlash part of the civil rights dialectic, which is why it is not unexpected, but apparently the Bailey-Blanchard-Dreger crowd hasn't really been paying attention.
The Second Critique, must therefore provide some argument, rooted in the needs of practical reason, in order to explain why in its Dialectic, versus that of the First Critique, we may accept its pursuit of the unconditioned condition and the object it identifies with this condition as meriting legitimate, intersubjectively valid assent.
Hegel called this evolution "the dialectical process" (see dialectic).
That is why Adorno calls for a "negative dialectic" and why he rejects the affirmative character of Hegel's dialectic (ND 143 61).
Just reflect on that a bit, dear Professor Y! get your noodle in gear!" Poor Professor Y! This dull academician (whose most intelligent comment is "Why, holy moly! you're afloat in dialectics!") is led on a dizzying tour of Paris, overwhelmed by a crazed author who claims he's on the brink of a revelation just when the professor expresses a need to find a bathroom.
As Lukács claims, this is the reason for why "art forms become subject to a historico-philosophical dialectic" (1916: 39).
Distinguished fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes opens this new anthology with "Why Magic Matters," an 80-page essay that explores this subgenre's "master-slave dialectic," with particular attention to contemporary pop culture (e.g. Harry Potter).
It is easy to understand why he excluded inventio and iudicium from rhetoric, since he regarded them as belonging to dialectic.
