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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... disliked Flannery O'Connor . I said she was one of the best American writers of the postwar period . He looked at me , gave me an odd grin , and turned to talk to the person on his left . He never said another word to me for the ...
... disliked Flannery O'Connor . I said she was one of the best American writers of the postwar period . He looked at me , gave me an odd grin , and turned to talk to the person on his left . He never said another word to me for the ...
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... disliked dogmatic conversational- ists . " She was never positive [ dogmatic ] in arguing , and she usually treated those who were so , in a manner which well enough gratified that unhappy disposition ; yet in such a sort as made it ...
... disliked dogmatic conversational- ists . " She was never positive [ dogmatic ] in arguing , and she usually treated those who were so , in a manner which well enough gratified that unhappy disposition ; yet in such a sort as made it ...
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... disliked it when other people acted the way she did . " Yet I have known her very angry with some whom she much esteemed for sometimes falling into that infirmity . " Swift calls her view an " infirmity . " He thinks one should not ...
... disliked it when other people acted the way she did . " Yet I have known her very angry with some whom she much esteemed for sometimes falling into that infirmity . " Swift calls her view an " infirmity . " He thinks one should not ...
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... disliked doing without it . In Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon , which was posthumously published in 1755 , Fielding talks about how miserable he was because he was " shut up within the circumference of a few yards , with a score of human ...
... disliked doing without it . In Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon , which was posthumously published in 1755 , Fielding talks about how miserable he was because he was " shut up within the circumference of a few yards , with a score of human ...
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... disliked writers who ex- plained away suffering by complacently saying that it is part of God's plan . In a review of Soame Jenyns's A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil ( 1757 ) , a book that purports to ex- plain human ...
... disliked writers who ex- plained away suffering by complacently saying that it is part of God's plan . In a review of Soame Jenyns's A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil ( 1757 ) , a book that purports to ex- plain human ...
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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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