Polemicization

The Contingency of the Commonplace

Bibliographic Data

ID19937841
AuthorsBenjamin Arditi (0000-0003-3536-873X), J Valentine (0000-0002-1304-8906)
Year1999
Publication date1999-08-23
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePolemicization (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9780585103372
OpenAlexW645760402
Open LibraryOL38019552M
ISBN9780585103372
LanguageEN
Citations received22

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

Contingency · Deliberation · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Modernity · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Pragmatics · Problem of universals · Referent · Subject (documents) · Subjectivity · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Cultural studies · Current Events · History & Theory · History & Theory - General · Methodology · Polemics · Political · Political science & theory · Political Science_Methodology · Political Theory · Politics/International Relations · Sociology of Knowledge