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Why Debate: Transformed by Academic Discourse by Shawn F Briscoe is a non-fiction work discussing the benefits of debate, and in fact the very necessity of it, for the purposes of having a healthy and thriving society. There are several contributors to this work that manage to offer a lot of separate insights than what might have been found with only a single author. The work discusses both the history of debate as well as the different forms that debate takes across many different cultures. For example, there is a chapter about the history of debate between the East and the West by Li Xi that is particularly interesting and showcases a lot of the variations in both the history and application of modern debate methodologies.
These essays are interesting in and of themselves, but the overall effect of the volume is where this really shines, because it manages to attack the idea of debate from many different angles, showing why it is good for individual people to have these skills, as well as for a society to embrace and create a culture where debate can thrive. Many of the conclusions found in the essays, with compelling evidence, link why debaters are and should be in high demand. Why Debate: Transformed by Academic Discourse by Shawn F Briscoe isn't an easy read, but it is a very worthwhile discourse on the value of debate in our modern societies and drives home the fact that avoiding a debate in favor of clinging to personal and untested beliefs is to the detriment of us all.
