L`Art d`esthétiser le précepte 70174 Stuttgart The chapters of this volume 9783642096402 The chapters of this volume focus on intercultural diplomacy in different regions of the world wherein diplomatic actors of various kinds might have been confronted by a whole universe of unfamiliar artifacts and artifact related practices De graphic changes worldwide are leading to increased average life expectancies within our populations like Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloise The book sheds new light on the budding poetics of the 17th Century novel by showing that rhetoric constitutes one of the founding principles of the theory of this emerging genre