Traditions of Controversy
Editors
| Tel Aviv University
| National Taiwan University
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.
[Controversies, 4] 2007. xvi, 310 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
ix–xvi
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Part I. Ancient traditions: East and West
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1
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3–15
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17–62
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63–83
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85–100
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101–123
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125–138
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Part II. Medieval and Early Modern traditions: Logic, dialectic, and rhetoric in controversy
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139
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141–149
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151–164
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165–179
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181–206
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Part III. Modern traditions: The rise of scientific disciplines
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207
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209–222
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223–247
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249–266
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267–279
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281–295
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About the contributors
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297–300
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Index
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301–309
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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)
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Subjects
Philosophy
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN015000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric