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Traditions of controversy

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
Print Book, English, ©2007
John Benjamins Pub. Company, Amsterdam, ©2007
Kongress Taipeh 2005
xvi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9789027218841, 9789027291813, 9027218846, 9027291810
147981403
1. Crossing borderlines: Traditions, disciplines, and controversies (by Dascal, Marcelo); 2. Part I. Ancient traditions: East and West; 3. Towards a taxonomy of controversies and controversiality: Ancient Greece and China (by Lloyd, Geoffrey); 4. Controversy in Jewish law: The Talmud's attitude to controversy (by Ben Menahem, Hanina); 5. Debates and rhetoric in Sumer (by Ponchia, Simonetta); 6. Persuasion in the Pre-Qin China: The Great Debate revisited (by Chang, Han-liang); 7. 'In proper form': Xunzi's theory of xinger (by Yi, Peng); 8. The right, duty and pleasure of debating in Western culture (by Cattani, Adelino); 9. Part II. Medieval and Early Modern traditions: Logic, dialectic, and rhetoric in controversy; 10. The medieval disputatio (by Weijers, Olga); 11. Disputing about disputing: The medieval procedure of positio and its role in a dispute over the nature of logic and the foundations of metaphysics (by Martin, Christopher J.); 12. Antibarabarous contra pseudophilosophers: Metaphors in an early modern controversy (by Marras, Cristina); 13. Dialectics, topology and practical philosophy in early modern times (by Scattola, Merio); 14. Part III. Modern traditions: The rise of scientific disciplines; 15. Legal controversy vs. scientific and philosophical controversies (by Alves, Joao Lopes); 16. The controversy over the foundation of sociology and its object: Simmel's form versus Durkheim's collectivity (by Morris-Reich, Amos); 17. Controversies about politeness (by Xie, Chaoqun); 18. Controversies over controversies: An ontological perspective on the place of controversy in current historiography (by Gal, Ofer); 19. Traditions of controversy and conflict resolution: Can past approaches help to solve present conflicts? (by Dascal, Marcelo); 20. About the contributors; 21. Index