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Chargement... Conversation: A History of a Declining Artpar Stephen Miller
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An entertaining intellectual history of a specific subject. The book would have benefited from more philosophy about why the subject is centrally important to civilisation. ( ) I plucked this book from my TBR pile after a recent feature about it on CBS's Sunday Morning. Lovers of conversation will wish to take a time machine back to the Turk's Head to have coffee with Boswell and Johnson or track down Dr. Franklin to raise a mug. Stephen Miller does more than recite a history of talk, but brings great conversationalists back to life. Even though the state of modern conversation is enough to cause despair this work will make one take enough heart to exercise their verbal dexterity to delay its' demise as long as possible. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)302.346Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Interaction Social interaction within groups Social interaction in primary groupsClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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