Traditions of controversy / / edited by Marcelo Dascal, Han-liang Chang

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xvi, 309 p
• Disciplina: 808.53; 808.5/3
• Soggetto topico: Polemics; Debates and debating
• Altri autori: DascalMarcelo ZhangHanliang
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Traditions of Controversy -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Crossing borderlines -- I. Ancient traditions -- 1. Towards a taxonomy of controversiesand controversiality -- 2. Controversy in Jewish law -- 3. Debates and rhetoric in Sumer -- 4. Persuasion in the Pre-Qin China -- 5. 'In proper form' -- 6. The right, duty and pleasureof debating in Western culture -- II. Medieval and Early Modern traditions -- 7. The medieval disputatio -- 8. Disputing about disputing -- 9. Antibarbarous contra pseudophilosophers -- 10. Dialectics, topology and practicalphilosophy in early modern times -- III. Modern traditions -- 11. Legal controversy vs. scientific and philosophical controversies* -- 12. The controversy over the foundationof sociology and its object -- 13. Controversies about politeness -- 14. Controversies over controversies -- 15. Traditions of controversyand conflict resolution -- About the contributors -- Index -- The series Controversies.
• Sommario/riassunto: Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture. Yet, there is hardly any culture where they do not exist. This book assumes that the practice of controversy, along with its theorization, constitutes - in each of the cultures and disciplines where it develops - a tradition. Whether there are enough shared elements in these traditions to consider them as, fundamentally, universal or not is something that can only be determined on the basis of a rich sample of controversies and theorizations thereof belonging to different traditions. This is what this volume provides to the reader. By presenting side by side controversies from the East and from the West, from the ancient past up to the present, from different domains of scholarship and action, the reader is in a position not only to admire the widespread nature, role, and richness of the phenomenon, but also to begin to evaluate its variety as well as universality. While the editors have purposefully avoided comparative studies of traditions of controversy, in order to focus on each tradition so to speak from its practitioners' point of view, some of the chapters take a bird's eye view and exemplify how such studies can be systematically conducted. In a world that is globalizing itself at a fast pace, the awareness of the multiplicity of traditions of controversy is fundamental for ensuring both that the integration of the various perspectives is harmonious and that each one of them is granted its place in a plural universe.
• Titolo autorizzato: Traditions of controversy
• ISBN: 1-282-15247-5; 9786612152474; 90-272-9181-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826372503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Controversies.