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

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

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1474448674
ISBN13: 9781474448673
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Nov 10 2020
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The ever-widening application of conversational style created a conversational Enlightenment
The 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 Jürgen Habermas' history of the public sphere as the history of rational conversation.

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