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Traditions of controversy /

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. Whe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dascal, Marcelo, Zhang, Hanliang
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, ©2007.
Colección:Controversies ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.