Conversational Enlightenment: The Reconception of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Thought

· Edinburgh University Press
E-book
296
Strony
Odpowiednia

Informacje o e-booku

The ever-widening application of conversational style created a conversational EnlightenmentThe Conversational Enlightenment traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, the fine arts, philosophy and public opinion. The book narrates this triumph of conversational style and thought partly as a succession to the oratorical rhetoric that characterised the Renaissance and partly as the victory of the only mode of speech that recognised women as women, and not as imitation men. It also rewrites Jrgen Habermas' history of the public sphere as the history of rational conversation.Key Features:The first book-length intellectual history of Enlightenment conversation in EnglishSynthesises a great deal of Enlightenment intellectual history within the frameworks of rhetoric and conversationPuts women's speech at the heart of the history of Enlightenment rhetoricFuses Habermas' historical-theoretical framework to the history of rhetoric, revising both
The ever-widening application of conversational style created a conversational EnlightenmentThe Conversational Enlightenment traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, the fine arts, philosophy and public opinion. The book narra...

Zobacz więcej

O autorze

David Randall is Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars. His publications include Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News (2008) and English Military News Pamphlets, 1513-1637 (2011).
David Randall is Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars. His publications include Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News (2008) and English Military News Pamphlets, 1513-1637 (2011).

Oceń tego e-booka

Podziel się z nami swoją opinią.

Informacje o czytaniu

Smartfony i tablety
Zainstaluj aplikację Książki Google Play na Androida i iPada/iPhone'a. Synchronizuje się ona automatycznie z kontem i pozwala na czytanie w dowolnym miejscu, w trybie online i offline.
Laptopy i komputery
Audiobooków kupionych w Google Play możesz słuchać w przeglądarce internetowej na komputerze.
Czytniki e-booków i inne urządzenia
Aby czytać na e-papierze, na czytnikach takich jak Kobo, musisz pobrać plik i przesłać go na swoje urządzenie. Aby przesłać pliki na obsługiwany czytnik, postępuj zgodnie ze szczegółowymi instrukcjami z Centrum pomocy.