Intellectual contestation requires the courtesy of respecting rival positions.

Evidence

Finally, then, the question of the manner in which our tensions are worked through matters a great deal. I don’t want to prescribe but I want to draw your attention to the problem of courtesy, of living with a tension that matters without eating each other. Because there is a kind of competitive way in which intellectuals live with their tensions in which they can only do so by climbing on the backs of those people whose positions they’re trying to contest. We have a great deal to learn about respecting the positions being advanced while contesting them because something important is at stake. I don’t think we’re very good at that. We have a lot to learn about the manners of a genuinely dialogically critical engagement. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Hall’s ‘courtesy of engagement’ chimes with the ideal of dialogic critical engagement as a scholarly virtue, analogous to the listening practices valued in Deep Listening and to civil disagreements in democratic theory. — connects to: Intellectual contestation requires courtesy toward contested positions; Productive intellectual conflict requires explicit procedural manners of engagement.; Intellectual struggle targets representative exponents, not every individual opinion holder (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Intellectual contestation requires courtesy toward contested positions; Productive intellectual conflict requires explicit procedural manners of engagement.; Intellectual struggle targets representative exponents, not every individual opinion holder (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Intellectual contestation requires courtesy toward contested positions #corroborates (1.00)
• Hostility toward rivals is expressed by attributing unrecognisable, repulsive opinions to them #complicates (0.72) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1493