Conversation: A History of a Declining Art by Stephen Miller
Yale University Press | June 21, 2007 | English | ISBN: 0300123655 | 357 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Yale University Press | June 21, 2007 | English | ISBN: 0300123655 | 357 pages | PDF | 1 MB
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.