Nietzsche's reading of the sophistsFootnote¹

I would like to thank Edward Schiappa and Richard Leo Enos for their instructive comments on an earlier draft of this article. I would also like to thank David Roochnik, Thomas Kent, and Michael Mendelson for sharing with me their views of the sophists and the history of rhetoric.

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