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Date: 26-Oct-2005
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Controversies and Subjectivity: Barrotta, Dascal (Eds) 

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Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:09:17
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Controversies and Subjectivity: Barrotta, Dascal (Eds) 

Title: Controversies and Subjectivity 
Series Title: Controversies 1  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CVS%201 

Editor: Pierluigi Barrotta, Italian Culture Institute
Editor: Marcelo Dascal, Tel-Aviv University

Hardback: ISBN: 9027218811 Pages: x, 411 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588116158 Pages: x, 411 Price: U.S. $ 150.00

Abstract:

This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common
denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. 

The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and
related notions, such as the concepts of 'I' and 'self'. From both
theoretical and historical viewpoints, several of the contributors show how
different and incompatible perspectives on the subject can help us
understand today's world, its habits, style, power relations, and
attitudes. For this purpose, use is made of insights in a broad range of
disciplines, such as sociology, psychoanalysis, pragmatics, intellectual
history, and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach helps to clarify
the multifaceted character of the subject and the role it plays nowadays as
well as over the centuries.

The second issue concerns the subject in inter-personal as well as in
intra-personal controversies. The enquiry here focuses on the ways in which
different aspects of the subject and subjective differences affect the
conduct, content, and rationality of controversies with others as well as
within oneself on a variety of topics. Among such aspects, the contributors
analyse the subject's emotions, cognitive states, argumentative practices,
and individual and collective identity. The interaction between the two
issues, the controversies on the subject and the subject of controversies,
sheds new light on the debate on modernity and its alleged crisis. 

Table of contents

Acknowledgments  ix  
Introduction  1-29  
Part I: Discussing with oneself   
1. Debating with myself and debating with others 
Marcelo Dascal 33-73  
2. Being in accordance with oneself: Moral self-controversy in Plato and
Aristotle 
Peter Schulz 75-90  
3. Conversion and controversy 
Massimo Leone 91-114  
4. Controversies and the logic of scientific discovery 
Ademar Ferreira 115-125  
5. Controversies and dialogic intersubjectivity 
Frédéric Cossutta 127-156  
6. Disagreement, self-agreement, and self-deception 
Shai Frogel 157-169  
Part II: The first person   
7. Intersubjectivity in controversy: A story from the Taoist philosopher
Zhuangzi Han-liang Chang 173-184  
8. Subjectivist and objectivist interpretations of controversy-based thought 
Adelino Cattani 185-200  
9. Temporality, reification and subjectivity: Carneades and the foundations
of the world of subjectivity 
Mihály Szivós 201-234  
10. First person singular in 17th century controversies 
Gerd Fritz 235-250  
11. Subjective justifications: Introspective arguments in empiricism 
Daniel Mishori 251-262  
12. Early modern controversies and theories of controversy: The rules of
the game and the role of the persons 
Thomas Gloning 263-281  
13. Externalism, internalism, and self-knowledge 
Yaron Senderowicz 283-300  
Part III: The politics of subjectivity   
14. Liberals vs. communitarians on the self 
Pierluigi Barrotta 303-324  
15. Ethical implications of de-dichotomization of identities in conflict 
Omar Barghouti 325-336  
16. The role of subjectivity in public controversy 
Alan G. Gross 337-352  
17. The Sokal affair: The role of subjectivity in shaping the controversy 
León Olivé 353-370  
18. Archaic subjectivity and/as controversy in psychoanalytic thinking 
Shirley Sharon-Zisser 371-393  
The contributors to this volume  395-399  
Indexes  401-411 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Written In: English  (eng)

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