Dialogo filosofico e arte della conversazione. La retorica dell'empirismo

From a historical point of view, the 18th century art of conversation is a lens through which one can read aspects of an era strongly characterized by social renewals, educational ambitions and aspirations for that civic humanism that modeled intellectual works no less than social reforms. Questioning the nature, ways and purposes of the conversation probably produces - as evidenced by the critical literature on the subject - intellectual acquisitions of a more general order, not unrelated to metaphysical options, ethical norms, aesthetic standards, ideological hypotheses.