| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 217 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
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Hume, David, 1711-1776. |
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Hume, David, 1711-1776. |
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects. |
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Political oratory.
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Political oratory. |
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects.
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects. |
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) |
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Eloquence.
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Eloquence. |
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Courtesy.
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Courtesy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hanvelt, Marc. Politics of Eloquence : David Hume's Polite Rhetoric. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9781442643796 |
| ISBN |
9781442696945 (electronic book) |
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144269694X (electronic book) |
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