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The Conversational Enlightenment: The Reconception of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Thought by David Randall 9781474448666

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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 Jrgen Habermas' history of the public sphere as the history of rational conversation.
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The first book-length intellectual history of Enlightenment conversation in EnglishSynthesises a great deal of Enlightenment intellectual history within the frameworks of rhetoric and conversationPuts women's speech at the heart of the history of Enlightenment rhetoricFuses Habermas' historical-theoretical framework to the history of rhetoric, revising both



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ISBN 9781474448666
Author David Randall
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press

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