Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
Series |
Controversies ; v. 4
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Controversies ; v. 4.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Polemics.
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Polemics. |
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Debates and debating.
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Debates and debating. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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Added Author |
Dascal, Marcelo.
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Zhang, Hanliang.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Traditions of controversy. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, ©2007 9789027218841 9027218846 (DLC) 2007025142 |
ISBN |
9027291810 (electronic book) |
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9789027291813 (electronic book) |
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9789027218841 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9027218846 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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