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Edinburgh University Press The Concept of Conversation: From Cicero's Sermo to the Grand Siecle's Conversation

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The first history of early modern conversation in English. In the classical period, conversation referred to real conversations, conducted in the leisure time of noble men, and concerned with indefinite philosophical topics. Christianity inflected conversation with universal aspirations during the medieval centuries and the 'ars dictaminis', the art of letter writing, increased the importance of this written analogue of conversation. The Renaissance humanists from Petrarch onward further transformed conversation, and its genre analogues of dialogue and letter, by transforming it into a metaphor of increasing scope. This expanded realm of humanist conversation bifurcated in Renaissance and early modern Europe. 'The Concept of Conversation' traces the way the rise of conversation spread out from the history of rhetoric to include the histories of friendship, the court and the salon, the Republic of Letters, periodical press and women. It revises JUrgen Habermas' history of the emergence of the rational speech of the public sphere as the history of the emergence of rational conversation and puts the emergence of women's speech at the centre of the intellectual history of early modern Europe.Key FeaturesThe first book-length history of early modern conversation in EnglishSynthesizes early modern intellectual history within the frameworks of rhetoric and conversationPlaces the history of women's speech at the heart of the history of early modern rhetoricFuses Habermas' historical-theoretical framework to the history of rhetoric and revises both Review The sheer amount of material [this book covers] is at least half the appeal. Randall weaves a thick, elaborate, and mostly seamless tapestry from sometimes disparate threads. He prefers to let the texts speak for themselves, drawing his conclusions following lengthy quotations in English, French, and Italian. The other half of the [book's] appeal, then, is in Randall's nimble analyses. For instance, he finds persuasive geographical, temporal, and conceptual continuities to demonstrate the significance of natural law jurisprudence's emphasis on self-preservation, an emphasis that runs from Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, and Samuel Pufendorf through to the link between sociability, on theone hand, and behavior and manners, on the other.--James Donathan Garner, University of Texas at Austin "Rhetorica " About the Author David Randall is Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars. His publications include 'Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News' (2008) and 'English Military News Pamphlets, 1513-1637' (2011).

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Brand: Edinburgh University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1474430104
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 February 2018
Listed Since: 17 February 2017

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