{"product_id":"the-conversational-enlightenment-david-randall-9781474448666","title":"The Conversational Enlightenment: The Reconception of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe ever-widening application of conversational style created a conversational Enlightenment\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Conversational Enlightenment\u003c\/em\u003e 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 J?gen Habermas' history of the public sphere as the history of rational conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first book-length intellectual history of Enlightenment conversation in English\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSynthesises a great deal of Enlightenment intellectual history within the frameworks of rhetoric and conversation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePuts women's speech at the heart of the history of Enlightenment rhetoric\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFuses Habermas' historical-theoretical framework to the history of rhetoric, revising both\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Randall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474448666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474448666\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 03\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d","brand":"David Randall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935514722559,"sku":"9781474448666","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fa84f851-df58-48b5-bdc8-d39bc704e552.jpg?v=1681420240","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-conversational-enlightenment-david-randall-9781474448666","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}