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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... Age of Conversation ( 2005 ) , a study of conversation in seventeenth- and eighteenth - century France , Benedetta Craveri says that salon conversation's aim was " none other than the pleasure Conversation and Its Discontents 13.
... Age of Conversation ( 2005 ) , a study of conversation in seventeenth- and eighteenth - century France , Benedetta Craveri says that salon conversation's aim was " none other than the pleasure Conversation and Its Discontents 13.
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A History of a Declining Art Stephen Miller. salon conversation's aim was " none other than the pleasure of conversation for its own sake . " Oakeshott also says that conversation is purposeless . It " has no determined course , we do ...
A History of a Declining Art Stephen Miller. salon conversation's aim was " none other than the pleasure of conversation for its own sake . " Oakeshott also says that conversation is purposeless . It " has no determined course , we do ...
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... salons took the form of weekly dinners ( some met more frequently ) that would last all after- noon , but " discourse , not dining , was their defining function . " Benjamin Franklin attended the salon of Helvetius's widow ( outside of ...
... salons took the form of weekly dinners ( some met more frequently ) that would last all after- noon , but " discourse , not dining , was their defining function . " Benjamin Franklin attended the salon of Helvetius's widow ( outside of ...
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... salon was started early in the 1610s by Madame de Rambouil- let . ( At roughly the same time a prosperous merchant founded a salon in Amsterdam ; it was presided over by his two daugh- ters . ) Seventeenth - century salon culture ...
... salon was started early in the 1610s by Madame de Rambouil- let . ( At roughly the same time a prosperous merchant founded a salon in Amsterdam ; it was presided over by his two daugh- ters . ) Seventeenth - century salon culture ...
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... salon world's interest in language . In both the mid - seventeenth - century and the mid- eighteenth - century salons there was a good deal of light conversation — what La Rochefoucauld calls conversation galante . Friedrich Grimm , the ...
... salon world's interest in language . In both the mid - seventeenth - century and the mid- eighteenth - century salons there was a good deal of light conversation — what La Rochefoucauld calls conversation galante . Friedrich Grimm , the ...
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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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