Conversation: A History of a Declining Art

Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of...
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Author: Stephen Miller
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Conversation: A History of a Declining Art by Miller, Stephen

Conversation: A History of a Declining Art

Dhs. 385.38

Conversation: A History of a Declining Art

Dhs. 385.38
Author: Stephen Miller
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Stephen Miller
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 06/01/2007
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.54w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780300123654

About the Author
Stephen Miller is a freelance writer and a contributing editor to The Wilson 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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