In Defense of Polemics

Part 1: Theoretical Questions.- Chapter 1. Managing Disagreement in Democracy: For a Rhetoric of Dissent.- Chapter 2. What is Polemical Discourse?.- Part 2: The Nature of Polemical Discourse: Debating on the Place of Women In the Public Space.- Chapter 3. Discourse and Polemical Exchange: On the Burqa in France.- Chapter 4. Public Controversy in the Media: The "Exclusion" of Women from the Public Space.- Part 3: Reason, Passion and Violence.- Chapter 5. Rationality and/or Passion: Discussing Stock-Options in Times of Crisis.- Chapter 6. Verbal Violence: Its Functions and Limits. Flames in Polemical Exchanges.- Conclusion: Coexistence in Dissent. The Functions of Polemics and their Institutional Conditions of Possibility.