The Conversational Enlightenment : : The Reconception of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Thought / / David Randall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Randall, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 The Society and Culture of Conversation --; Chapter 2 The Oratorical Arts --; Chapter 3 The Conversational Arts --; Chapter 4 The Philosophy of Conversation --; Chapter 5 Public Opinion --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474448680; 9783110780420
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474448680
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Randall.

The ever-widening application of conversational style created a conversational EnlightenmentThe 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.Key Features: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