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Traditions of ControversyEdited by Marcelo Dascal † and Han-liang Chang
[Controversies 4] 2007
► pp. v–viii
Edited by Marcelo Dascal † and Han-liang Chang
[Controversies 4] 2007
► pp. v–viii
Table of contents
Crossing borderlines: Traditions, disciplines, and controversies
Part I. Ancient traditions: East and West1
Towards a taxonomy of controversies and controversiality: Ancient Greece and China
Controversy in Jewish law: The Talmud's attitude to controversy
Debates and rhetoric in Sumer
Persuasion in the Pre-Qin China: The Great Debate revisited
'In proper form': Xunzi's theory of xinger
The right, duty and pleasure of debating in Western culture
Part II. Medieval and Early Modern traditions: Logic, dialectic, and rhetoric in controversy139
The medieval disputatio
Disputing about disputing: The medieval procedure of positio and its role in a dispute over the nature of logic and the foundations of metaphysics
Antibarabarous contra pseudophilosophers: Metaphors in an early modern controversy
Dialectics, topology and practical philosophy in early modern times
Part III. Modern traditions: The rise of scientific disciplines207
Legal controversy vs. scientific and philosophical controversies
The controversy over the foundation of sociology and its object: Simmel's form versus Durkheim's collectivity
Controversies about politeness
Controversies over controversies: An ontological perspective on the place of controversy in current historiography
Traditions of controversy and conflict resolution: Can past approaches help to solve present conflicts?
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