dialecticalization

English

Alternative forms

dialecticalisation

Etymology

From dialectical +‎ -ization.

Noun

dialecticalization (countable and uncountable, plural dialecticalizations)

The act or process of making dialectical.
1. The process of (a language) separating into dialects.
  - 1969, African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston University Papers on Africa, volume 3, page 43:
    Caxton noted: "And that comyn englysshe that is spoken in one shire varyeth from a nother."^[sic]¹⁹ But political, social, and technical forces can arrest dialecticalization and impose a standard speech, as tends to occur in large states.
  - 1971, Carleton Taylor Hodge, Papers on the Manding, →ISBN, page 61:
    This is a little earlier than we would expect the exodus from the Sahara to have begun, but it is possible that dialecticalization began before the southward migration.
  - 1996 December 11, Tom Wier, “Re: Chinese dialect”, in soc.culture.china (Usenet), message-ID <32AF69F3.4EE8@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>:
    According to everything I've ever read, it is the opposite: English is undergoing a *unification* of dialects, especially between American and British variëties^[sic]. English is growing and diversifying only in capabilities and vocabulary to the extent that is it picking these up, while it is beïng^[sic] assimilated into the whole of World English too quickly to be a cause for dialecticalization.
2. The introduction of a dialectic (exchange of arguments or contradiction of ideas) to explore an idea or topic.
  - 1958, Calvin Seerveld, Benedetto Croce's Earlier Aesthetic Theories and Literary Criticism: A Critical Philosophical Look at the Development During His Rationalistic Years, →ISBN, page 91:
    Croce also opposed Hegel’s methodical dialecticalization of distinct aspects of reality, individual facts and empirical concepts,¹⁹⁰ not because of the quaint biases it revealed but because Croce was not a universalist like Hegel, only a partial universalist, lacking also the macro-microcosmos motif; and Croce could not support Hegel’s Naturphilosophie and triadic monism because he believed in a spiritualized dualism.¹⁹¹
  - 1971, Дијалектика, volume 6, The University of Belgrade, page 35:
    In the dynamic and evolutional conception of systemic objects in their evolutiveness is reflected the process of dialecticalization of science.
  - 1982, The American Association of Teachers of French, The French Review, page 279:
    In referring to the Manichean model, I would like to suggest that this form of [a]ntithesis, in its absolute dialecticalization of any given problem, is, in Césaire’s [t]erms, further amplified by its hyperbolic form.
  - 1983, Amerikastudien, volume 28, page 182:
    Even the “dialecticalization of all categories” that Brecht spoke of, the signet of the modern age, would not eliminate sense and meaning, but only emphasize their ambivalence, since it completely retains the binary structure.
  - 1986, Soviet Studies in Philosophy, M. E. Sharpe, page 31:
    […] presupposes, on the one hand, the conscious aspiration to more profound “dialecticalization” of historical materialism, i.e., to a more profound philosophical grasping of the formational logic of history from the standpoint of the contemporary level of the development of the theory of dialectics.
  - 1988 [1983], Georges Van Den Abbeele, transl., The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, University of Minnesota Press, translation of Le Différend by Lyotard, Jean-François, in Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, →ISBN, pages 90, 97:
    What ought to be surprising, rather, is that the opposition should have been made at all and that it should be maintained apart from its own dialecticalization, like a concession made on the side, through on a major point, to the understanding. […] A prescription like Equivocate (or: Dialecticalize) every phrase, including the present one signifies that the operators of equivocacy and of dialectics must be applied to the prescription itself. To state it otherwise, in philosophical discourse, every phrase that presents itself as the rule of this discourse must be submitted to equivocation and dialecticalization and be put back into play. This self-mocking prescription corresponds to scepticism.
  - 1997, На переломе: советская биология в 20-30-х годах, page 272:
    Not many dared to speak out openly against the dialecticalization of biology (14, p. 81). The majority of scientists limited themselves to statements concerning the materialistic direction of their research.
  - 2004 August 16 [2000], Paul Ricœur, “II. History, Epistemology”, in Kathleen Blamey, David Pellauer, transl., Memory, History, Forgetting, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, translation of La mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli (in French), →ISBN, 2. Explanation/Understanding; Some Advocates of Rigor: Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Norbert Elias, page 209:
    I have said enough to indicate the points where Elias’s analyses lend themselves to a dialecticalization of the described processes that he describes in a unilinear fashion from the top to the bottom of the scale.⁵⁴ Below, we shall examine in what way the theme of appropriation may balance that of constraint. Elias himself opens the way to a parallel dialecticalization in one passage where, after having emphasized the nonrational character (in the sense indicated earlier) of the formation of habits, he comments: “But it is by no means impossible that we can make out of it [civilization] something more ‘reasonable,’ something that functions in terms of our needs and purposes.
  - 2006, Stuart Kendall, transl., Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie, (1967-1978), MIT Press, translation of original by Baudrillard, Jean, →ISBN, page 91:
    Enzensberger is therefore always, in his “dialecticalization” of communication so strangely proximate to cybernetic regulation, a victim, though in a more subtle way, of the ideological model we are discussing.
  - 2010 January 24, Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, pages 26, 121:
    As a general approach, initially Ricoeur makes a careful methodological division into distinctive levels, which may recognized as a preparatory phase to his “dialecticalizations” with the purpose of dissolving false conflicts and avoiding impasses.³⁷ […] ⁴³ The background to these constant “dialecticalizations” is not only the reality of coping with the multiple philosophical worlds and disciplines involved in his reflection, but also the biographical reality of a life filled with tensions, starting with the “inner conflict” between the inspiration from Bergson and Barth in his youth and then continuing throughout his life and work: the tension between German and French sources, Jaspers and Marcel, Continental and Analytical philosophy, phenomenology and structuralism (and later neuro-biology).
  - 2015, Anthony Paul Smith, transl., Introduction to Non-Marxism, Univocal Publishing, translation of original by Laruelle, François, →ISBN; republished Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016 March, →ISBN:
    They have forgotten or repressed Determination-in-the-Last-Instance, they have not elucidated it but they have attempted to make it a reciprocal and unitary determination either through a linear mechanism, or by dialecticalization and super-dialecticalization, or even by structural overdetermination.
  - 2015 December 14, Leigh Price, Heila Lotz-Sistka, editors, Critical Realism, Environmental Learning and Social-Ecological Change, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, pages 173, 174:
    The key point from the emergent experiences and evidence represented in the case examined here is that the situated description and retroduction processes appear to allow a historicized process of dialecticalization with boundary crossing that restores reason and identity, unlocking casual dimensions for a better explanatory grasp of the complex environment and sustainability challenges of the day. […] This allows one to contemplate how the descriptive differentiation of commonalities and differences (dialecticalization) is necessary in education so as to enable learning.
3. (Marxism) The initiation of dialectic (conflict), especially class conflict.
  - 1973, Harriet Burns Sherwin, Paulo Freire: His Philosophy and Pedagogy and Its Implication for American Education, The University of California, Berkeley, page 224:
    One masterly way to avoid that danger is by a cultural revolution, that dialecticalization which has yesterday, today or tomorrow and which avoids becoming static because it is an ongoing effort for change.
  - 1976, Telos, Telos Press, page 83:
    This theoretical construct, produced by a de-dialecticalization of the concepts, reveals the identification of two phenomena which Marx made a point of differentiating: capitalist socialization and socialist socialization.