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Adam Potkay

The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume

English · Hardback

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Summary

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...

Product details

Authors	Adam Potkay
Publisher	Cornell University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	02.12.1994

EAN	9780801430145
ISBN	978-0-8014-3014-5
No. of pages	264
Dimensions	155 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
Weight	907 g
Series	Anthropology of Contemporary I Rhetoric and Society Rhetoric and Society
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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