Polemicization: The Contingency of the Commonplace

Benjamin Arditi; Jeremy Valentine

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1999

Polemicization

The Contingency of the Commonplace

Benjamin Arditi and Jeremy Valentine

In the series Taking on the Political

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780585103372

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About this book

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Chapter 1 Polemic and Polemicization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Polemicization and political philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Chapter 3 Polemicizing subjectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 4 Polemicizing universals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 176
Keywords: Politics

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Published: April 5, 2022
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