Conversation: a history of a declining art
"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 endang...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XV, 336 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780300110302 0300110308 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
one Conversation and Its Discontents
two Ancient Conversation: From the Book of Job
to Plato s Symposium
three Three Factors Affecting Conversation:
Religion, Commerce, Women
four The Age of Conversation:
Eighteenth-Century Britain
five Samuel Johnson: A Conversational Triumph; Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu: Conversation Lost
Contents
six Conversation in Decline: From
Rafflery to Reverie
seven Conversation in America: From Benjamin
Franklin to Dale Carnegie
eight Modern Enemies of Conversation: From
Countercultural Theorists to White Negroes
nine The Ways We Don t Converse Now
ten The End of Conversation?
Bibliographical Essay
Index
A HISTORY OF A DECLINING ART
Stephen Miller
Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a
lifelong interest in conversation by
taking a 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 best-selling On Bulkhit,
so Miller now brings the art of
conversation into the light, revealing
why good conversation matters and
why it is in decline.
Miller explores views on conversation
from the perspective of such great
writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift,
Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
and Virginia
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
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.
Stephen Miller is a freelance writer
and a contributing editor to The
Wikon Quarterly. His essays on
leading eighteenth-century writers
have appeared in many magazines,
including the Times Literary
Supplement, Partisan Review, and
Sewanee Review.
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
one Conversation and Its Discontents
two Ancient Conversation: From the Book of Job
to Plato's Symposium
three Three Factors Affecting Conversation:
Religion, Commerce, Women
four The Age of Conversation:
Eighteenth-Century Britain
five Samuel Johnson: A Conversational Triumph; Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu: Conversation Lost
Contents
six Conversation in Decline: From
Rafflery to Reverie
seven Conversation in America: From Benjamin
Franklin to Dale Carnegie
eight Modern Enemies of Conversation: From
Countercultural Theorists to "White Negroes"
nine The Ways We Don't Converse Now
ten The End of Conversation?
Bibliographical Essay
Index
A HISTORY OF A DECLINING ART
Stephen Miller
Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a
lifelong interest in conversation by
taking a 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 best-selling On Bulkhit,
so Miller now brings the art of
conversation into the light, revealing
why good conversation matters and
why it is in decline.
Miller explores views on conversation
from the perspective of such great
writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift,
Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
and Virginia
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
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.
Stephen Miller is a freelance writer
and a contributing editor to The
Wikon Quarterly. His essays on
leading eighteenth-century writers
have appeared in many magazines,
including the Times Literary
Supplement, Partisan Review, and
Sewanee Review. |
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