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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Other Authors: Dascal, Marcelo, Zhang, Hanliang
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, ©2007.
Series:Controversies ; v. 4.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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.
Physical Description:xvi, 309 pages : illustrations ;.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027218841
9027218846
9789027291813
9027291810

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