The politics of eloquence [electronic resource] : David Hume's polite rhetoric / Marc Hanvelt

Author: Hanvelt, Marc
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Physical Description: ix, 217 p. ; 24 cm.

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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.

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