Adam Smith - The Rhetoric of Propriety

Klappentext Provides the first book-length treatment of Smith's rhetorical theory! focusing on his theory of rhetorical propriety—the means by which effective communication is adapted to the variables of subject! audience! speaker or writer! purpose! and moment—and the centrality of this concept to his thought. Zusammenfassung Provides the first book-length treatment of Smith’s rhetorical theory, focusing on his theory of rhetorical propriety—the means by which effective communication is adapted to the variables of subject, audience, speaker or writer, purpose, and moment—and the centrality of this concept to his thought.

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• Authors: Stephen McKenna, Stephen J. McKenna, McKenna Stephen, Stephen McKenna
• Assisted by: Edward Schiappa (Editor), Arthur E. Walzer (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2005
• EAN: 9780791465820
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6582-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Suny Series, Rhetoric in the M; Rhetoric in the Modern Era
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought