Ernesto Grassi is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich and Director of the Institute of Humanistic and Philosophic Studies. He is editor of Rowohlts deutsche Enzyklopadie and Rowohlts Klassiker. Professor Grassi is the author of numerous books on the nature of art, myth, imagination, and the philosophical history of culture. Rhetoric as Philosophy is the first work of Professor Grassi to introduce his views to English readers.