Fighring for Life -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Backgrounds -- I. Contest, and Other Adversatives -- Adversaliveness -- Origins of the Present Work -- Procedures: Understanding and Asymmetric Opposition -- Contest, Language, and Thought -- Some Differentiations: Contest and Alternative Concepts -- Part Two: Patterns of Adversativeness -- 2. Contest and Sexual Identity -- The Sexe S and the Adversative -- The Expendable Sex -- Combat between Conspecific Males -- Ritual Combat -- Combat, Stress, and Masculine Identity -- Male Fights Male -- Bonding Patterns and Loners -- All-Male Secrets and Woman's Secret -- Vicarious Contest -- 3. Separation and Self-Giving: Pieta and Quixote -- Externality of Masculinity -- Self-Giving, Feminine and Masculine -- Maximizing Male Risk -- Vocal and Physical Bravado -- Masculinity . Contest. Differentiation -- Part Three: Past, Present, Future -- 4. Academic and Intellectual Arenas -- The Agonistic Heritage of Academia -- The Oral Roots of Agonistic Noetic -- Residual Orality in Academia -- The Latin Connection -- From Agonistic to Coeducation: The In-Depth Revolution -- Realignment of Agonistic Structures -- The New Setting -- 5. Some Present Issues -- Spectator Sports -- Politics -- Business -- Christian Life and Worship -- 6. Contest and Interiorization -- The Variable Settings of Contest -- From Violence to Inwardness in Narrative -- Contest and the Inward Turn of Scholarship -- Contest, Consciousness, and the Self -- Adversativeness in the Service of the Person -- References -- Index.