TY  - BOOK
AU  - Randall,David
TI  - The Conversational Enlightenment: The Reconception of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Thought 
SN  - 9781474448666
U1  - 302.34/609033 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Conversation analysis
KW  - Conversation
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474448680
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474448680
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474448680/original
ER  -