0 a piece of writing or a speech in which a person strongly attacks or defends a particular opinion, person, idea, or set of beliefs:
1 a piece of writing or a speech in which a person argues forcefully for or against someone or something
This point is what separates rhetorical practice from the polemics of dialecticians.
Other issues of polemic, rhetoric and form are dealt with at the end of this reply.
The contradictions and overdeterminations of their construction as stereotypes in the newspapers, cartoons, fictions, and polemics of the period are obvious.
The second book is written from an operational rather than an academic perspective, and has distinctly polemic character.
The importance of the coronation ceremony was taken for granted in much of the polemic from 1554.
Alongside the possibility for public disputation and polemic that the printed sphere offered, such possibilities for individual self-conditioning coined the other face of print.
So history-heavy, theory-thin analyses and polemics have played a larger role here, in both case law and scholarship, than in some other fields.
At last, two distinguished scholars have gone back to primary sources to try to sort truths from speculation and polemics.
