Conversation: A History of a Declining ArtYale University Press, 1 d’oct. 2008 - 368 pàgines Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in America. As Harry G. Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of bullshit in his recent bestselling On Bullshit, so Miller now brings the art of conversation into the light, revealing why good conversation matters and why it is in decline. Miller explores the conversation about conversation among such great writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift, Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Virginia Woolf. He focuses on the world of British coffeehouses and clubs in “The Age of Conversation” and examines how this era ended. Turning his attention to the United States, the author traces a prolonged decline in the theory and practice of conversation from Benjamin Franklin through Hemingway to Dick Cheney. He cites our technology (iPods, cell phones, and video games) and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgmental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation. |
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... If youdon'tstop the littlethings, the little thingsbecome big. —Bonnie Tryon, Principal of Golding Elementary School, Cobleskill, New York Contents Preface Acknowledgments ONE Conversation and Its Discontents TWO Ancient.
... If youdon'tstop the littlethings, the little thingsbecome big. —Bonnie Tryon, Principal of Golding Elementary School, Cobleskill, New York Contents Preface Acknowledgments ONE Conversation and Its Discontents TWO Ancient.
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... York . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Miller , Stephen . Conversation : a history of a declining art / Stephen Miller . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references ( p . ) and index . ISBN - 13 : 978-0-300-11030 ...
... York . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Miller , Stephen . Conversation : a history of a declining art / Stephen Miller . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references ( p . ) and index . ISBN - 13 : 978-0-300-11030 ...
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... Nature If you don't stop the little things , the little things become big . —Bonnie Tryon , Principal of Golding Elementary School , Cobleskill , New York Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii ONE Conversation and Its Discontents.
... Nature If you don't stop the little things , the little things become big . —Bonnie Tryon , Principal of Golding Elementary School , Cobleskill , New York Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii ONE Conversation and Its Discontents.
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... York Times Book Review has run a full - page review of seven books on sex . ) The number of books published on a subject is not necessarily an index of the subject's importance , but it is safe to say that most Americans are not ...
... York Times Book Review has run a full - page review of seven books on sex . ) The number of books published on a subject is not necessarily an index of the subject's importance , but it is safe to say that most Americans are not ...
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... York Times reports that Finland , a country where " silence is a sign of wisdom and good manners , " and where people rarely have conversations during meals , has one of the world's highest rates of suicide , depression , and alcoholism ...
... York Times reports that Finland , a country where " silence is a sign of wisdom and good manners , " and where people rarely have conversations during meals , has one of the world's highest rates of suicide , depression , and alcoholism ...
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EighteenthCentury Britain | 79 |
A Conversational Triumph Lady | 119 |
Raillery to Reverie | 150 |
From Benjamin | 194 |
From | 242 |
NINE The Ways We Dont Converse Now | 264 |
TEN The End of Conversation? | 291 |
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