The Art of Controversy is an acidulous, sarcastic treatise written by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and first published in 1831.
Here Victor S. Navasky brilliantly illuminates the true power of one of our most enduringly vital forms of artistic expression.
The Art of Controversy
Table of contents - The Art of Controversy Preliminary - Logic and Dialectic; The Basis of All Dialectic; Stratagems; On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art; Psychological Observations; On the Wisdom of Life - ...
Speech and the communication of thought, which, in their mutual relations, are always attended by a slight impulse on the part of the will, are almost a physical necessity.
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