Traditions of Controversy
Published on 21. November 2007
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-90-272-1884-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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By presenting side by side controversies from the East and from the West, from anxient to the modern traditions, from different fields and disciplines, Traditions and Controversy not only introduces the richness of the phenomenon, but also opens one's eyes to the complicated relativity and universality therein. -- I-wen Su, National Taiwan University, in Pragmatics & Cognition, Vol. 17:2 (2009)More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
730 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1884-1 (9789027218841)
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Marcelo Dascal | Han-liang Chang
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Content
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