Polemicization: the contingency of the commonplace

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arditi, Benjamín, Author.

Contributor:

Valentine, Jeremy, Contributor.

Series:

Taking on the Political : TAPO

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Polemics.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Edinburgh University Press 1999

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-10337-2

OCLC:

1312726279