Conversation: A History of a Declining Art
Stephen Miller
ISBN 10: 0300123655 ISBN 13: 9780300123654
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2007
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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.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Stephen Miller is a freelance writer and a contributing editor to The Wilson Quarterly. His essays on leading eighteenth-century writers have appeared in many magazines, including the Times Literary Supplement, Partisan Review, and Sewanee Review.
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Titel: Conversation: A History of a Declining Art
Verlag: Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Softcover
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