The book is a polemic, and its main target is what Mr de Waal takes to be a distorted idea of human life as relentlessly selfish and ruthlessly competitive.
By a man who takes his scientific evidence from a polemic film.
Without delving into a tangent on the nuances of under-employment, discouraged workers or issuing a polemic on why unemployment remains elevated even as the workforce shrinks, these figures demonstrate the dubious legitimacy of macroeconomics.
Mr Robertson, who wrote a book, The Dawkins Letter, in response to the scientist's The God Delusion, claimed Prof Dawkins' visit was not to promote science but to "advance a polemic", or controversial argument.
Hayek wrote a best-selling polemic railing against economic planning, The Road to Serfdom, shortly after World War II.
Taxes in America is no polemic for tax reform, but it is a powerful brief for such an effort.
Even Gordon Brown, who as a young Labour MP wrote an anti-Thatcher polemic called "where there's greed", was delighted to welcome her on the steps of Number 10 when he became prime minister.
Unlike astronomy or particle physics, paleontology is still a vigorous mixture of acquisitiveness, showmanship, speculation, and polemic.
And its author, a British journalist, acknowledges that before he decided to write this polemic, he never spent much time thinking about food or felt the need to watch food programs.
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These will be enjoyable for those who like philosophical polemic, but they do little to dispel the impression that Mr Searle and some of his critics fail to give a rational account of why they disagree.
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