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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012.; (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012).Description: 1 online resource (ix, 217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442696945
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JA85 .P655 2012
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.

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