Dear Jeyamohan,
The discussion about polemics and literature is stimulating. During my time as a literature teacher, I frequently addressed these kinds of questions. I particularly enjoyed teaching about Blake. He wrote many polemical works, but they are poems with sharp wit and linguistic play. Unbeknownst to us, Gulliver’s Travels and Alice in Wonderland were written as polemical works, which later became classics. Some of Immanuel Kant’s and Hegel’s polemical works are considered outstanding philosophical treatises. Marx penned The Poverty of Philosophy as a polemical work, which now stands as one of his major contributions.
Raja
