Streiten über das Streiten: Normative Grundlagen polemischer Metakommunikation

A striking feature of polemic disputes is the high degree of meta-communication they display. This is primarily enacted by the participants as a dispute about each other's dispute behaviour. The book analyzes the manifestations, functions, and above all the normative foundations of this 'dispute at one remove' on the basis of some 250 polemical texts published in Germany between the mid 18th and late 20th century.