Polemics

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781844678464

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Polemics by Alain Badiou Pdf

Following on from Alain Badiou’s acclaimed works Ethics and Metapolitics, Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. With the critical insight and polemical bravura for which he is renowned, Badiou considers the relationships between language, judgment and propaganda—and shows how propaganda has become the dominant force. Both wittily and profoundly, Badiou presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what constitutes political truth.

Author : Ruth Amossy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030852108

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In Defense of Polemics by Ruth Amossy Pdf

This book revisits the definition of polemical discourse and deals with its functions in the democratic sphere. It first examines theoretical questions concerning the management of disagreement in democracy and the nature of polemical discourse. Next, it analyses case studies involving such issues as the place of women in the public space, illustrated by the case of the burqa in France and public controversy in the media on the exclusion of women from the public space. The book then explores reason, passion and violence in polemical discourse by means of cases involving confrontations between secular and ultra-orthodox circles, controversies about the Mexican Wall and fierce discussions about stock-options, and bonuses in times of financial crisis. Although polemical exchanges in the public sphere exacerbate dissent instead of resolving conflicts, they are quite frequent in the media and on the Net. How can we explain such a paradox? Most studies in argumentation avoid the question: they mainly focus on the verbal procedures leading to agreement. This focus stems from the centrality conferred upon consensus in our democratic societies, where decisions should be the result of a process of deliberation. What is then the social function of a confrontational management of dissent that does not primarily seek to achieve agreement? Is it just a sign of decadence, failure and powerlessness, or does it play a constructive role? This book answers these questions.

Author : Mun'im A. Sirry
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199359363

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Scriptural Polemics by Mun'im A. Sirry Pdf

A number of passages in the Qur'an criticize Jews and Christians, from claims of exclusive salvation and charges of Jewish and Christian falsification of revelation to cautions against the taking of Jews and Christians as patrons, allies, or intimates. Mun'im Sirry offers a novel exploration of these polemical passages, which have long been regarded as obstacles to peaceable interreligious relations, through the lens of twentieth-century tafsir (exegesis). He considers such essential questions as: How have modern contexts shaped Muslim reformers' understanding of the Qur'an, and how have the reformers' interpretations recontextualized these passages? Can the Qur'an's polemical texts be interpreted fruitfully for interactions among religious communities in the modern world? Sirry also reflects on the various definitions of apologetic or polemic as relevant sacred texts and analyzes reformist tafsirs with careful attention to argument, literary context, and rhetoric in order to illuminate the methods, positions, and horizons of the exegeses. Scriptural Polemics provides both a critical engagement with the tafsirs and a lucid and original examination of Qur'anic language, logic, and dilemmas, showing how the dynamic and varied reformist interpretations of these passages open the way for a less polemical approach to other religions.

Author : Sharon Weisser,Naly Thaler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004323049

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Strategies of Polemics in Greek and Roman Philosophy by Sharon Weisser,Naly Thaler Pdf

This volume brings together eleven papers written by specialists of ancient philosophy, focusing on philosophical polemics from the Classical to the Roman period, by way of Hellenistic philosophy.

Author : George H. van Kooten,Jacques van Ruiten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004411500

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Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity by George H. van Kooten,Jacques van Ruiten Pdf

In Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation in the ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and early-Islamic world are discussed. The contributions enquire into the boundaries between debate, polemics, and intolerance, and address their manifestations in both philosophy and religion.

Author : Daniel J. Lasker
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786949851

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Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction by Daniel J. Lasker Pdf

This meticulously researched study is based on a comprehensive reading of all the major Jewish sources from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the Haskalah in the late eighteenth century. Its clearly written and carefully documented exposition of the philosophical arguments used by Jews to refute four central doctrines of Christianity (trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virgin birth) makes a major contribution to a relatively neglected area of medieval Jewish intellectual history.

Author : Amit
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004493568

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Hidden Polemics in Biblical Narrative by Amit Pdf

In current usage polemics is broadly defined as the practice of rhetorical persuasion or as the rhetorical presentation of an argument in dispute. The phenomenon of polemics is found throughout the whole corpus of biblical literature. In most instances the polemics is direct, but sometimes indirect, and occasionally it appears to be deliberately covert. This book is primarily concerned with exploring the phenomenon of covert polemics. Dealing first with considerations of method, definition and characterization, the study moves on to the analysis of a number of narrative texts and the uncovering of their covert polemical content. Polemics of this type is a feature of biblical writing on a range of central issues, and can be instructively isolated in texts relating to cultic locations (Beth El, Jerusalem), questions of leadership (the houses of Saul and David), community boundaries (the Samaritans) and other problems of legitimation.

Author : Nandagopal R. Menon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198903345

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Intra-Muslim Polemics in South India by Nandagopal R. Menon Pdf

How do we understand differences and disputes among various branches of Islam? This book places intimacies, rather than radical incompatibilities, at the centre of its in-depth ethnographic account of mass-publicized theological polemics among Sunni Muslims in the south Indian state of Kerala. What unites Muslims of different Sunni groups also divides them and incites polemics?Islam as a shared system of knowledge and practices, bonds of kinship and other social relations, and the common condition of being a beleaguered religious minority in a Hindu majoritarian democracy. Diverging from works that have focused on how Islamic practices like ritual prayers facilitate the fashioning of theologically grounded pious selves, the book argues that intra-Muslim polemics marginalize theology and have little to do with cultivating piety. Instead, polemics constitute inter- and intra-religious socialities, enable Muslims to articulate their connections to India and other imaginaries, and produce Islam as a public religion in a secular nation-state.

Author : Alberto Tiburcio
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474440486

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Muslim-Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran by Alberto Tiburcio Pdf

Focused on the work of the renegade missionary 'Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam (d. 1734), this book contributes to ongoing debates on the nature of confessionalism, interreligious encounters, and cultural translation in early modern Muslim empires.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004401792

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Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

This book focuses on polemical religious texts of Iberia’s long fifteenth century, a period characterized by both social violence and cultural exchange. It highlights how polemical texts often reveal the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, promoting dialogue and cultural transfer.

Author : Olav Hammer,Kocku von Stuckrad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047431510

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Polemical Encounters by Olav Hammer,Kocku von Stuckrad Pdf

In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie esoteric identities and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history.

Author : Jane Gallop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135873486

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Polemic by Jane Gallop Pdf

These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, Polemic makes criticism a critical issue.

Author : Isidor F. Stone
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0394717899

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Polemics and Prophecies, 1967-1970 by Isidor F. Stone Pdf

Author : Valerie Stoker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520965461

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Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory by Valerie Stoker Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How did the patronage activities of India’s Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346–1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vyasatirtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vyasatirtha played an important role in expanding the empire’s economic and social networks. By examining his polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and sociopolitical reality under Vijayanagara rule.

Author : Rolena Adorno
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300144963

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Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative by Rolena Adorno Pdf

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