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Traditions of controversy
- Title
- Traditions of controversy / edited by Marcelo Dascal, Han-liang Chang.
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
- Supplementary Content
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Description
- xvi, 309 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Controversies ; v. 4
- Uniform Title
- Controversies ; v. 4.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-562
- ISBN
- 9789027218841
- 9027218846
- 9789027291813
- 9027291810
- LCCN
- 2007025142
- OCLC
- 147981403
- Title
- Traditions of controversy / edited by Marcelo Dascal, Han-liang Chang.
- Imprint
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Controversies ; v. 4Controversies ; v. 4.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Dascal, Marcelo.Zhang, Hanliang.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Traditions of Controversy. John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007 1282152475 (OCoLC)732803395
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-562