Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety

by Stephen J. McKenna

Before his famed career as moral philosopher and economist, Adam Smith (1723-1790) was well known for a series of public lectures on rhetoric that he gave in Edinburgh and Glasgow. In this volume, Stephen J. McKenna provides the first book-length treatment of Smith's rhetorical theory, focusing on his theory of rhetorical propriety-the means by which effective communication is adapted to the variables of subject, audience, speaker or writer, purpose,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791465829
• ISBN13: 9780791465820
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"