Agnes Callard’s essay “Against Persuasion” is a piece I have read with increasing bemusement: what, exactly, is being imagined as persuasion here? How is it possible that her hero of listening is Socrates, the old gadfly of Athens? It is even more puzzling when we see how
The Imagination of Persuasion
The Imagination of Persuasion
The Imagination of Persuasion
Agnes Callard’s essay “Against Persuasion” is a piece I have read with increasing bemusement: what, exactly, is being imagined as persuasion here? How is it possible that her hero of listening is Socrates, the old gadfly of Athens? It is even more puzzling when we see how