Traditions of Controversy; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Crossing borderlines; I. Ancient traditions; II. Medieval and Early Modern traditions; III. Modern traditions; About the contributors; Index; The series Controversies.
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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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Title
Traditions of controversy.
International Standard Book Number
9027218846
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Debates and debating.
Polemics.
Debates and debating.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Communication Studies.