Traditions of controversy

Dascal, Marcelo. (Added Author). Zhang, Hanliang. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

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ISBN: 9027291810
ISBN: 9789027291813
ISBN: 9027218846
ISBN: 9789027218841
Physical Description: xvi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, ©2007.

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General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Crossing borderlines: Traditions, disciplines, and controversies / Marcelo Dascal and Han-liang Chang -- pt. 1. Ancient traditions: East and West -- 1. Towards a taxonomy of controversies and controversiality: Ancient Greece and China / Geoffrey Lloyd -- 2. Controversy in Jewish law: The Talmud's attitude to controversy / Hanina Ben-Menahem -- 3. Debates and rhetoric in Sumer / Simonetta Ponchia -- 4. Persuasion in the Pre-Qin China: The Great Debate revisited / Han-liang Chang -- 5. 'In proper form': Xunzi's theory of xinger / Peng Yi -- 6. The right, duty and pleasure of debating in Western culture / Adelino Cattani -- pt. 2. Medieval and Early Modern traditions: Logic, dialectic, and rhetoric in controversy.
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