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Conversation: A History of a Declining Art by Stephen Miller (Hardcover, 2006)
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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 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-139780300110302
eBay Product ID (ePID)95525163
Product Key Features
Publication Year2006
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameConversation: a History of a Declining Art
TypeTextbook
AuthorStephen Miller
Subject AreaFamily Sociology
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height210 mm
Item Width140 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorStephen Miller
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