Zobacz książki o podobnej tematyce

Więcej informacji o Conversation

• Dane szczegółowe
• Opis
• Ulubione w innej kategorii

Za ten zakup dostaniesz 145 punkty

Opis

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 Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of verbiage 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 judgemental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation.

Szczegóły książki

Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Pełny tytuł: Conversation
• Podtytuł: A History of a Declining Art
• Autor: Stephen Miller
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 368
• EAN: 9780300123654
• ISBN: 0300123655
• ID: 04574223
• Wydawca: Yale University Press
• Waga: 418 g
• Wymiary: 209 × 139 × 24 mm
• Data wydania: 25. July 2007

Ulubione w innej kategorii

---

---

---