The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume |
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| Author:
| Potkay, Adam |
| Series title: | Rhetoric and Society Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8014-3014-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1994 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $189.00 |
Book Description:
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This engaging and insightful book explores the fate of eloquence in a period during which it both denoted a living oratorical art and served as a major factor in political thought. Seeing Hume's philosophy as a key to the literature of the mid-eighteenth century, Adam Potkay compares the staus of eloquence in Hume's Essays and Natural History...
This engaging and insightful book explores the fate of eloquence in a period during which it both denoted a living oratorical art and served as a major factor in political thought. Seeing Hume's philosophy as a key to the literature of the mid-eighteenth century, Adam Potkay compares the staus of eloquence in Hume's Essays and Natural History...