The Value of Conversation

Terms.- The Philosophical Dialogue. From sophistical rhetoric to socratic dialectic.- Dimensions of conversation and the value of Socratic conversations in the Platonic dialogues.- Conversation and philosophical conversation.- Reflections on Cicero's dialogues using the writing "On the Speaker" (De oratore) as an example.- The Renaissance of Conversation - A Brief History of Conversation in the Age of Discourse Revolution.- Should one talk? And if so, about what? Or what not to talk about?- La douceur de la conversation d'après les traités de comportement (fin XVIIème-XVIIIème siècles).- Duties and conventions of conversation: Adolph Freiherr Knigge Back to the Community. Criticism of conversation in German-language reflection on conversation in the 20th century.- Contexts.- "La nature m'a créee pour la conversation".- On the Relationship between Conversation, Politics, and Society in Germaine de Staël's Works Conversation in the salon and among 19th century salonnières in Paris and Berlin.- Transformations of Conversation. On the interplay between salon music and the cultural newspaper.- From Talking at the Table to Table Talk. Genre History and Cultural History (1200 - 1700).- About Luther's Table Talks.- Texts.- Conversation as a free space. Lessing's Ernst and Falk (1778/1780).- Conversation between knowledge transfer and pleasure: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer's conversational games.-" Voilà de beaux advis et entretiens " - Forms of courtly conversation in Brantôme's Les Dames galantes.- "Le ris n'empesche pas qu'on ne die verité ". L'usage de la moquerie dans les Contes et Discours d'Eutrapel de Noël Du Fail.- " Et lors se metent en autres paroles... " Les changements de sujet dans une conversation littéraire.- Figurative speech about courtly education - Gottfried's 'Tristan' conception in conversation.

Christoph Strosetzki is Professor of Romance Studies at the University of Münster.