Carlo Michelstaedter and the Metaphysics of Will.

Profiles philosopher, poet and painter Carlo Michelstaedter. Insistence on an absolute unity of theory and practice; Education at the University of Florence in Italy; Work on the ramifications of rhetoric only defend the possibility of persuasion; Opposition between persuasion and rhetoric in the history of philosophy; Nihilism; Arguments on Michelstaedter's suicide as an intimate aspects of his thought.