Controversies and Subjectivity

Editors
ORCID logoPierluigi Barrotta | Italian Culture Institute in London, University of Pisa
Marcelo Dascal † | Tel Aviv University
HardboundAvailable
ISBN 9789027218810 (Eur) | EUR 125.00
ISBN 9781588116154 (USA) | USD 188.00
 
e-Book
ISBN 9789027294258 | EUR 125.00 | USD 188.00
 
Google Play logo
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.

[Controversies, 1] 2005.  x, 411 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Cited by

Cited by 4 other publications

Barrotta, Pierluigi
2009. The pursuit of unhappiness. The elusive psychology of well-being, Daniel M. Haybron. Oxford University Press, 2008, xv + 357 pages.. Economics and Philosophy 25:3  pp. 378 ff. DOI logo
Bondi, Marina
2018. Dialogicity in written language use. In From Pragmatics to Dialogue [Dialogue Studies, 31],  pp. 137 ff. DOI logo
I-wen Su, Lily
2009. Review of Dascal & Chang (2007): Traditions of Controversy. Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2  pp. 458 ff. DOI logo
Sariel, Aviram
2016. Marcelo Dascal’s Theory of Controversies. Pragmatics & Cognition 23:3  pp. 437 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 16 march 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Subjects

Philosophy

Philosophy

Main BIC Subject

HP: Philosophy

Main BISAC Subject

PHI000000: PHILOSOPHY / General
ONIX Metadata
ONIX 2.1
ONIX 3.0
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2005042119 | Marc record