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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... mainly by subconscious passions or by ideas that enter our psyche subliminally . " There is no such thing as conversation , " the novelist and essayist Re- becca West argues . " It is an illusion . There are intersecting monologues ...
... mainly by subconscious passions or by ideas that enter our psyche subliminally . " There is no such thing as conversation , " the novelist and essayist Re- becca West argues . " It is an illusion . There are intersecting monologues ...
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... of recent books and articles have claimed that , owing mainly to anger , conversation is in bad shape in contemporary America . In The Argument Culture : Moving from Debate to Di- alogue ( 1998 ) Deborah Tannen says : " Our Preface xi.
... of recent books and articles have claimed that , owing mainly to anger , conversation is in bad shape in contemporary America . In The Argument Culture : Moving from Debate to Di- alogue ( 1998 ) Deborah Tannen says : " Our Preface xi.
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... mainly as a venting of opinions . According to Judith Martin , who writes under the name Miss Manners , " Intellectual stim- ulation , to most , means hearing themselves deliver lectures on matters they have already figured out to their ...
... mainly as a venting of opinions . According to Judith Martin , who writes under the name Miss Manners , " Intellectual stim- ulation , to most , means hearing themselves deliver lectures on matters they have already figured out to their ...
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... mainly focus on public discourse — how we converse about public affairs . In Public Discourse in America : Conversation and Communication in the Twenty - first Century ( 2003 ) , Judith Rodin speaks of the need " to start a conversa ...
... mainly focus on public discourse — how we converse about public affairs . In Public Discourse in America : Conversation and Communication in the Twenty - first Century ( 2003 ) , Judith Rodin speaks of the need " to start a conversa ...
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... mainly signi- fied what it means now : " the informal interchange of infor- mation , ideas , etc. , by spoken words ; ability or proficiency in this , " which is the Oxford English Dictionary's fifth definition of the word ...
... mainly signi- fied what it means now : " the informal interchange of infor- mation , ideas , etc. , by spoken words ; ability or proficiency in this , " which is the Oxford English Dictionary's fifth definition of the word ...
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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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