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Journal Article
The Logic of 'But': Quarrels, Literature and Democracy
2017
Overview
This paper looks at intrinsic disputation within proposition, and specifically within propositions that offer a moderated version of the freedom of speech and expression. It begins from a consideration of what is at stake in Othello's 'Rude am I in my speech', a rhetorical gesture that frames an act of great eloquence, and in which the eloquence serves to formulate a quarrel by ostensibly resolving it. This example reveals that there is a conflict between empirical quarrel and articulated spoken resolution. This leads the essay to explore the way in which diplomacy works, whereby we establish the pretence that there is peace between disputatious positions through the power of the logic of 'but', thus: 'I agree with you, but ...'. Finally, this is extended to a consideration of the limits of and/or on free speech: 'I defend free speech, but ...', where the 'but' is a gesture in which the defence of free speech is modified to the point of being obliterated.
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Edinburgh University Press,Edinburgh University Press Ltd
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