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Conversation : A History of a Declining Art
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780300123654
- ISBN-10: 0300123655
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish Date: June 2007
- Dimensions: 8.18 x 5.54 x 0.93 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.92 pounds
- Page Count: 368
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