The Politics of Eloquence ：David Hume's Polite Rhetoric

Publication subTitle ：David Hume's Polite Rhetoric

Author： Hanvelt Marc  

Publisher： University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9781442696945

Subject： B561.291 Hume (Hume, D. 1711 ~ 1776)

Keyword： 政治学史、政治思想史,政治理论,哲学理论,哲学、宗教

Language： ENG

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Description

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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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Hume’s Political Project

2. Hume on Rhetoric and Persuasion

3. Hume’s Conception of Politeness

4. Polite in His Own Way (Hume and the Scots)

5. Resuscitating the Passionate Eloquence of the Ancients

6. Rhetoric and the Public Sphere

7. Toward a Politics of Eloquence

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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