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Polemicization : The Contingency of the Commonplace / Benjamin Arditi, Jeremy Valentine.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Taking on the Political : TAPOPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748610648
  • 9780585103372
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Polemic and Polemicization -- Chapter 2 Polemicization and political philosophy -- Chapter 3 Polemicizing subjectivity -- Chapter 4 Polemicizing universals -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The distinctive feature of this book is its ingenious argumentative strategy: it takes on the political by developing a practice and a thought the authors call 'polemicization'. They draw from the recent work of the political philosopher Jacques Rancière, for whom a polemic or disagreement does not refer to the case when one interlocutor says white and another black. Instead, it designates the conflict arising when, for example, both parties say white, yet each understands something different by whiteness. This situation forces the interlocutors to construe the scene of the validity of their claims, which is just another way of saying that the given or commonplace is never settled once and for all.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780585103372

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Polemic and Polemicization -- Chapter 2 Polemicization and political philosophy -- Chapter 3 Polemicizing subjectivity -- Chapter 4 Polemicizing universals -- Bibliography -- Index

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The distinctive feature of this book is its ingenious argumentative strategy: it takes on the political by developing a practice and a thought the authors call 'polemicization'. They draw from the recent work of the political philosopher Jacques Rancière, for whom a polemic or disagreement does not refer to the case when one interlocutor says white and another black. Instead, it designates the conflict arising when, for example, both parties say white, yet each understands something different by whiteness. This situation forces the interlocutors to construe the scene of the validity of their claims, which is just another way of saying that the given or commonplace is never settled once and for all.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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