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The story of the rise and fall of the art of conversation in Western civilization 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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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300123655
ISBN-13
9780300123654
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57198768

Product Key Features

Author
Stephen Miller
Publication Name
Conversation : a History of a Declining Art
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
0.8in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
P95.45.M54 2007
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Communication Studies, Essays
Dewey Decimal
302.3/46
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, History

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