Persuasion and Rhetoric (original) (raw)

Readers of this book will not find much in it about the "persuasion" and "rheto ric" they might expect to read about in this journal. Nor will they find in it the Appendici Critiche that appear in the original text, Michelstaedter's thesis en titled I concetti dipersuasione e rettorica [sic] in Platone eAristotele, which he submitted to the Faculty of Letters in Florence in 1910. But the version printed here by the editors (hereafter "VBD," as there is no indication of who did what) will no doubt appeal to those who dislike Plato and Aristotle, have the idea that