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UNINA9910452252803321 |
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Hanvelt Marc |
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The politics of eloquence : David Hume's polite rhetoric / / Marc Hanvelt |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Rhetoric - Political aspects |
Political oratory |
Persuasion (Rhetoric) - Political aspects |
Eloquence |
Courtesy |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Hume's Political Project -- 2. Hume on Rhetoric and Persuasion -- 3. Hume's Conception of Politeness -- 4. Polite in His Own Way (Hume and the Scots) -- 5. Resuscitating the Passionate Eloquence of the Ancients -- 6. Rhetoric and the Public Sphere -- 7. Toward a Politics of Eloquence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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History has shown us that the power of political speech can be put to both positive and manipulative ends - while rhetoric is a powerful tool for those who seek to persuade others to adopt their views, it can also be employed to foment factionalism and undermine the very basis of a democratic society. In this unique study, Marc Hanvelt shows how eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume confronted questions about the negative moral and political effects of rhetoric, and how he differentiated between manipulative and non-manipulative political speech. Drawing on Hume's philosophical, historical, and popular writings, The Politics of Eloquence presents an understanding of |
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rhetoric that can be properly ascribed to this important thinker, an understanding hitherto overlooked in the scholarly literature. Offering an original approach to thinking about political rhetoric - an essential element of democratic politics - Hanvelt makes important contributions to both Hume scholarship and to broader areas in political theory and philosophy. |
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UNINA9910148692503321 |
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Appalachian tectonics / / edited by Thomas H. Clark |
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[Toronto, Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1967 |
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©1967 |
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1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Special publications (Royal Society of Canada), no. 10. ; ; no. 10 |
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Geology, Structural - Canada |
Geology, Structural - Appalachian Mountains |
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Appalachian Mountains |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Klippen in Northern Newfoundland -- Platform and Klippe Tectonics of Western Newfoundland: A Review -- The Appalachian Region of Québec: Some Aspects of its Divisions and Geology -- The Taconic Unconformity in the Gaspé Peninsula and Neighbouring Regions -- Tectonics of Part of the Sillery Formation in the Chaudiere-Matapedia Segment of the Québec Appalachians -- Tectonics of Part of the Appalachian Region of Southeastern Québec (Southwest of the Chaudière River) -- Contributions from Systematic Studies of Minor Structures in the Southern Québec Appalachians -- Geosynclinal Setting of the Appalachian Mountains in Southeastern Quebec and Northwestern New England -- Gravity Measurements in Appalachia and their Structural |
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Implications -- Some Geological and Tectonic Considerations of Eastern Canadian Earthquakes -- Some Implications of New Ideas on Ocean-Floor Spreading upon the Geology of the Appalachians |
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Mountain ranges are the most conspicuous elements of the earth's architecture, and the manner in which the architectural units are arranged or disarranged has become the study of a subdivision of geology known as Tectonics. A hundred years ago James Hall attempted the first scientific synthesis of the steps in the building of the eastern North American mountains, the Appalachians. His initial hypothesis of 1857, expanded and broadened by J.D. Dana during the decade which followed, laid the foundation for our modern geosynclinal theory of mountain building. During the last century of modifications and refinements were contributed concerning the roles played by crustal compression, sub-crustal convection currents, batholiths, metamorphism, gravity sliding, and isostasy. In recent years detailed mapping, supplemented by studies of turbidity currents, paleomagentism, stable isotopes, and radio-activity have helped to unravel the history of mountain building, but today there are as many questions unanswered as there are those for which there are tentative solutions.Aspects of Appalachian orogeny was a suitable subject for the symposium of the Royal Society of Canada Annual Meeting in 1966 at Sherbrooke, Quebec—a city within the Appalachian Mountain System. This book assembles the papers of this symposium, dealing with gravity sliding, studies of sedimentation and structure in limited areas, comparisons with the Appalachians of the United States, the bearing of gravity measurements upon our understanding of mountain structure, earthquakes, and a broad, general view of the tectonic pattern of the earth of which this mountain-built belt is but a small part.Such a comprehensive volume, bringing together a variety of points of view of some of the foremost scholars in the field, indicates the vastness of the subject, the significant progress made thus far, the necessity for new and progressive methods of exploration, and above all the interdependence of all the workers in the field, no matter how seemingly unrelated their specialities are. |
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UNINA9910463816403321 |
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Listen, copy, read : popular learning in early modern Japan / / edited by Matthias Hayek and Annick Horiuchi |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Brill's Japanese Studies Library, , 0925-6512 ; ; Volume 46 |
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Education - Japan - History |
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Japan Intellectual life |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- Editors’ Introduction -- 1 From Dialogue to Mass-logue: Oral Performance within Sekimon Shingaku / Masashi Tsujimoto -- 2 Ideological Construction and Books in Early Modern Japan—Political Sense, Cosmology, and World Views / Masaki Wakao -- 3 Treasure Boxes, Fabrics, and Mirrors: On the Contents and the Classification of Popular Encyclopedias from Early Modern Japan / Michael Kinski -- 4 Learning to Read and Write—A Study of Tenaraibon / Yoshinaga Koizumi -- 5 What does “Literature of Correspondence” Mean? An Examination of the Japanese Genre Term ōraimono and its History / Markus Rüttermann -- 6 The Evolution of ‘Learning’ in Early Modern Japanese Medicine / Machi Senjurō -- 7 From Liuyu yanyi to Rikuyu engi taii: Turning a Vernacular Chinese Text into a Moral Textbook in Edo-period Japan / Peter Kornicki -- 8 Chinese Scholarship and Teaching in Eighteenth-Century Kyoto / W. J. Boot -- 9 The Jinkōki Phenomenon: The Story of a Longstanding Calculation Manual in Tokugawa Japan / Annick Horiuchi -- 10 From Esoteric Tools to Handbooks “for Beginners”: Printed Divination Books from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century / Matthias Hayek -- 11 Learning Painting in Books: Typology, Readership and Uses of Printed Painting Manuals during the Edo Period / Christophe Marq -- Index of Book Titles -- Index of Names -- Index of |
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Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in acquiring knowledge and skills during the Tokugawa period. It offers an overview of the communication media and tools that teachers, booksellers, and authors elaborated to make such knowledge more accessible to a large audience. Schools, public lectures, private academies or hand-copied or printed manuals devoted to a great variety of topics, from epistolary etiquette or personal ethics to calculation, divination or painting, are here invoked to illustrate the vitality of Tokugawa Japan’s ‘knowledge market’, and to show how popular learning relied on three types of activities: listening, copying and reading. With contributions by: W.J. Boot, Matthias Hayek, Annick Horiuchi, Michael Kinski, Koizumi Yoshinaga, Peter Kornicki, Machi Senjūrō, Christophe Marquet, Markus Rüttermann, Tsujimoto Masashi, and Wakao Masaki. |
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