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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... , " the novelist and essayist Re- becca West argues . " It is an illusion . There are intersecting monologues , that is all . " Writing about the novelist and play- wright Michael Frayn , a contemporary critic refers to " X Preface.
... , " the novelist and essayist Re- becca West argues . " It is an illusion . There are intersecting monologues , that is all . " Writing about the novelist and play- wright Michael Frayn , a contemporary critic refers to " X Preface.
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... argues that conversation can be reformed . " The truest Way to understand Conversation , is to know the Faults and Errors to which it is subject , and from thence , every Man to form Maxims to himself whereby it may be regulated . " Yet ...
... argues that conversation can be reformed . " The truest Way to understand Conversation , is to know the Faults and Errors to which it is subject , and from thence , every Man to form Maxims to himself whereby it may be regulated . " Yet ...
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... argues , " is an unrehearsed intellectual adventure . It is with conversation as with gambling ; its significance lies neither in winning nor in losing , but in wagering . " An interview is not a conversation . Two decades ago , I ...
... argues , " is an unrehearsed intellectual adventure . It is with conversation as with gambling ; its significance lies neither in winning nor in losing , but in wagering . " An interview is not a conversation . Two decades ago , I ...
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... argues that " the mind stagnates without external ventilation . " In contemporary North Korea the conversible world is nonexistent . Nicholas Kristof points out that " entire families sometimes [ are ] executed if one member gets drunk ...
... argues that " the mind stagnates without external ventilation . " In contemporary North Korea the conversible world is nonexistent . Nicholas Kristof points out that " entire families sometimes [ are ] executed if one member gets drunk ...
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... argues that the Romans have neglected the art of conversation , which " should be found in social groups , in philosophical discus- sions and among gatherings of friends — and may it also at- tend dinners ! " Many guidebooks , he says ...
... argues that the Romans have neglected the art of conversation , which " should be found in social groups , in philosophical discus- sions and among gatherings of friends — and may it also at- tend dinners ! " Many guidebooks , he says ...
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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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