{"product_id":"the-concept-of-conversation-david-randall-9781474430111","title":"The Concept of Conversation: From Cicero's Sermo to the Grand Siècle's Conversation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first history of early modern conversation in English\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003ears dictaminis\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Concept of Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e 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 J?rgen 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Features\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Randall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474430112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474430111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"David Randall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46311058374911,"sku":"9781474430111","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c44858d0-79c4-4c35-b649-f15b7f01c0d2.jpg?v=1730887991","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-concept-of-conversation-david-randall-9781474430111","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}