Undoubtedly, the dialectic process articulated in Hegel's Phenomenologyof Spirit has had major influences on some of composition's more notable theorists of radical or liberatory pedagogy. Theorists like Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux, although different from each other in a number of ways,seem to agree that the goal of liberatory pedagogy should be to bring about some kind of dialectic change. ...

ion of any dimension of comparison is an imperfect but potentially useful conceptual achievement of simplification, not an inherent property of the world. I offer a model of political discourse that is equally dynamic, and use it to illustrate how structurally anchored discursive opportunities in continental Europe differ from the

The paper discusses two answers to the question, How to address the harmful effects of technology? The first response proposes a complete separation of science from culture, religion, and ethics. The second response finds harm in the logic and method of science itself. The paper deploys a feminist technoscience approach to overcome these accounts of neutral or deterministic technological agency...

Karl Popper famously opposed Marxism in general and its philosophical core – the Marxist dialectic – in particular. As a progressive thinker, Popper saw in dialectic a source of dogmatism damaging to philosophy and political theory. Popper had summarized his views on dialectic in an article that was first delivered in 1937 and subsequently republished as a chapter of his book (2002, pp. 419-451...

Abstract In this paper, we introduce an enactive account of loving as participatory sense-making inspired by the “ I love to you ” feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray. Emancipating from fusionist concept romantic love, which understands unity, conceptualise existential engagement in a dialectic encounter, continuous processes becoming-in-relation. these processes, desire acquires certain promine...

In 1998, forty years after the original edition of The New Rhetoric (Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, 1958), Douglas Walton published The New Dialectic. The title confirmed the dialectical turn of argumentation theory, taken long before. Both titles refer to old versions of practices and theories, a new dialectic presupposing an old dialectic as much as a new rhetoric presupposes an old rhetoric....

Aristotle’s vigorous vindication of rhetoric pairs it with dialectic. Dialectic, for Aristotle, combines logical propositions with induction from rigorous evidence in an effort to prove a case beyond doubt. Rhetoric parallels dialectic, but combines arguments with examples in an effort to persuade. Neither one amounts to science, which for Aristotle requires irrefutable establishment of general...