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Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in America. As Harry G. Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of bullshit in his recent bestselling "On Bullshit," so Miller now brings the art of conversation into the light, revealing why good conversation matters and why it is in decline.

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Michel de Montaigne, the sixteenth-century French essayist, loved conversation.

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  • Title Conversation: A History of a Declining Art
  • Author Stephen Miller
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Printing
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New York
  • Publication date 2007-06-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780300123654 / 0300123655
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.54 x 0.93 in (20.78 x 14.07 x 2.36 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Conversation analysis
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005026860
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.346

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Stephen Miller is a freelance writer and a contributing editor to The Wilson Quarterly. His essays on leading eighteenth-century writers have appeared in many magazines, including the Times Literary Supplement, Partisan Review, and Sewanee Review.

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