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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818966003321

Autore

Hanvelt Marc

Titolo

The politics of eloquence : David Hume's polite rhetoric / / Marc Hanvelt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-4426-9695-8

1-4426-9694-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Disciplina

320.01/4

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Political aspects

Political oratory

Persuasion (Rhetoric) - Political aspects

Eloquence

Courtesy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Hume's Political Project -- Hume on Rhetoric and Persuasion -- Hume's Conception of Politeness -- Polite in His own Way (Hume and the Scots) -- Resuscitating the Passionate Eloquence of the Ancients -- Rhetoric and the Public Sphere -- Toward a Politics of Eloquence.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on Hume's philosophical, historical, and popular writings, The Politics of Eloquence presents an understanding of rhetoric that can be properly ascribed to this important thinker, an understanding hitherto overlooked in the scholarly literature.