… which would turn each tea /coffee table assembly into exclusive circles reminiscent of the seventeenth-century French salons . Doing so, they highlighted that the core tenets of sociability – politeness and conversation 4 – could in fact …
… privacy, subjectivity and the family dimension became ‘appealing to a wide public of readers’ (Habermas 51). Lounges and salons contributed to promote public information and the companionable enjoyment of private life. Thanks to the …
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