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Perelman suddenly left us on 22 January 1984, just as he was getting ready to write the great synthesis that he had been preparing for several years. He wanted to entitle it From Metaphysics to Rhetoric. I have insisted on keeping that title for this volume of essays on argumentation. I shall speak neither of the man that he was nor of the thought which is henceforth associated with his name. It is thus that the discretion of friendship joins with the work’s notoriety in order to justify this silence.
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Meyer, M. (1989). Foreword — The Modernity of Rhetoric. In: Meyer, M. (eds) From Metaphysics to Rhetoric. Synthese Library, vol 202. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2593-9_1
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