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The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume - Rhetoric and Society Adam Potkay 1st edition
The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume - Rhetoric and Society
Adam Potkay
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...
264 pages, 2
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 2, 1994 |
| ISBN13 | 9780801430145 |
| Publishers | Cornell University Press |
| Pages | 264 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 235 × 22 mm · 535 g |
| Language | English |